mainstay
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The Chrysler 300C sedan of the 2000s became a mainstay in hip-hop videos.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
Troubled singer-songwriters are a mainstay in the mythology of American roots music.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
Scams have become a "mainstay" of modern crime and are "increasingly difficult to investigate because of their transnational nature", said Jeffery Chin, deputy director at the police Scam Public Education Office.
From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026
Manchester City winger Lauren Hemp has been a mainstay in the starting XI and told the Women's Football Weekly podcast "it's really important to have a good connection" with the left-back.
From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026
Millions of acres of forests were sprayed instead of thou sands as before, in an effort to save the balsams, which are the mainstay of the pulp and paper industry.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Vocabulary lists containing mainstay
Beowulf
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Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
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