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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

Iran is no bastion of free expression, in other words, which anyone bopping to those raps about enacting revenge on “the Baal-worshipping Epstein crew” must remember.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 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

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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