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noun as in chief support

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In that short time, her salary has become the mainstay of her household.

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Together, the Campbells were mainstays of the Edinburgh political scene.

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But how did E. coli come to be such a mainstay of biotechnology, why is it so useful and what might its future hold?

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Noah Hawley’s “Alien: Earth” finale, “The Real Monsters,” fulfills those expectations, multiplying the variety of carnage and twisting other franchise mainstays.

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Combination vaccines are the mainstay of childhood immunisation.

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