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bastion

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


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It started with the flight in – to Kandahar, Kabul or Camp Bastion.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2026

This story has corrected the last name of Delta CEO to Ed Bastian, not Bastion.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 1, 2024

Activists have been highly suspicious of Bastion Security, a company founded by a former apartheid-era soldier in South Africa, which the Eswatini government has hired to provide security training for law enforcement.

From New York Times • Jan. 28, 2023

This deployment comes a year after Russia set up the Bastion systems on the island of Matua, in the central part of the Kuril ridge, the ministry said in a statement.

From Reuters • Dec. 6, 2022

Again her fingers find the outer ramparts, the Bastion de la Hollande, the little staircase leading down.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr




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