mainstay

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The 2027 and 2028 Oscars will also be the last two ceremonies held at the Dolby Theatre after more than a quarter century at the Hollywood mainstay.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Meanwhile, the casualties of war include mainstay growth stock funds.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Prior to his work on Radio 2, Mills was a mainstay on Radio 1 - which he joined in 1998 - for decades.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

They weren’t always the flashiest businesses, but they built the Baltimore company into a grocery store mainstay.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Owners no longer had the economic clout of being a mainstay of the economy.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson