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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

From 1983 to 1995, High Performance was published by Astro Artz, renamed 18th Street Arts Center in 1990, and a bastion of performance art to this day.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

Small towns, villages and hamlets -- home to around half of the central European nation's 9.5 million people -- have long been the bastion of the ruling Fidesz party.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 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

For the moment, Chadwick’s scorn, sounding as it did from deep within the bastion of small science, rankled deeply.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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