pillars

Example Sentences

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Of these pillars, only two are explicitly centered around the UK: “Contribution” specifically requires a connection to British heritage and “hubs” refers to a percentage of production or postproduction taking place in the UK.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

Making money through the accounting of daily life fits perfectly within these pillars, she writes.

From Salon • May 10, 2026

"Our work shows that even radical ideas about quantum mechanics can be tested against precise physical measurements, and that, reassuringly, timekeeping remains one of the most stable pillars of modern physics."

From Science Daily • May 3, 2026

The Atlantic partnership was "based on twin pillars: Europe and America" and was "more important today than it has ever been".

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

João de Barros was able to claim in 1555 that Hercules’ pillars, ‘which he set up at our very doorstep, as it were,...have been effaced from human memory and thrust into silence and oblivion’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton