bastion
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Small towns, villages and hamlets -- home to around half of the central European nation's 9.5 million people -- have long been the bastion of the ruling Fidesz party.
From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026
At that $500,000 price point, a buyer can still land a single-family home — an example of how parts of the Midwest remain a bastion of affordability.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 11, 2026
The bloodiest crisis in Iran’s recent political history started in a conservative bastion: Tehran’s market area.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
As a decentralized system whose channels and stations exist within the communities they serve, public media represents a last bastion of local and regional programming.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2025
This side of the castle, perhaps a hundred feet high, was the pink bastion they had seen from the mountain-top.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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Lord of the Flies
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A Raisin in the Sun
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100 SAT Words Beginning with "B"
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