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bastion

[bas-chuhn, -tee-uhn] / ˈbæs tʃən, -ti ən /


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Back in Burton, Al Wall and Emma Cole, brewery manager at Burton Bridge and Heritage Brewing Company, hope to preserve their history and be a "bastion of independence".

From BBC • May 25, 2026

An AFP correspondent heard explosions as the state-run National News Agency reported strikes on the area, a Hezbollah bastion that has largely emptied of residents since war erupted last month.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

No one’s comfortable saying that that pop music should be a bastion of the wealthy, but solutions to that are not free-market solutions.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026

But the Dow remains a bastion of balance and relative stability in a market that according to some analysts has become overly concentrated in one industry and one small cluster of stocks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 8, 2026

Sir Peter had stood all of one night on the bastion directing and encouraging the men.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli




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