mainstay

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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

But the goal this spring is for him to cement himself as a mainstay in the club’s pitching rotation.

From Los Angeles Times

Buttler, who signed a new two-year central contract last year, has been a mainstay of England's white-ball teams for more than a decade.

From BBC

Charreadas remain a mainstay throughout Mexico and in Mexican American communities north of the border.

From Los Angeles Times

Sheep, and in particular wool, were a mainstay of the Australian economy for much of the past 150 years, feeding into the notion by the 1950s that Australia "rode on the sheep's back".

From Barron's