mainstays

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Capsey and Freya Kemp, who should be England's middle order mainstays for years to come, led a recovery but looked uncertain when to launch a counter-attack considering the rain clouds that constantly teased them above.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

Kobliner went through three mainstays from her book with MarketWatch to show that the more things change, the more they stay the same.

From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026

From Beyoncé to Taylor Swift — whose big-budget tour spectacles received theatrical releases — to Lady Gaga and Billie Eilish’s more modest streaming affairs, tour documentaries and concert films have become modern mainstays.

From Salon • Feb. 8, 2026

Hip-hop, and its predecessor, rap, had become cultural mainstays.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 1, 2026

By contrast, swine, mainstays of European agriculture, transmit anthrax, brucellosis, leptospirosis, trichinosis, and tuberculosis.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann