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On the eve of the new term, Justice Samuel Alito, a staunch conservative, gave a rare public interview in which he told Fox News Sunday he was "concerned about the future of the court."

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

Doing so may staunch the sharp selloff in the $31.5 trillion Treasury market that has pushed long-end yields to their highest levels in decades.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

Mistral, for its part, has been a staunch defender of open-weight models, saying they give users the flexibility to tailor them to their needs while protecting their data.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

They could also have come from "staunch supporters of the government".

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

It was a time of quiet departures, of the sifting away of all that was not staunch against winter.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Two years after the WTO's last ministerial conference in Abu Dhabi failed to make meaningful progress on key issues like fisheries and agriculture, member states face even stauncher challenges.

From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026

However, the source said Reeker tried to get the agency to issue a stauncher defense of Yovanovitch.

From Reuters ● Oct. 26, 2019

He conceived it as an alternative to 4chan, one with an even stauncher commitment to anything-goes content moderation.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 23, 2019

Saudi Arabia and the U.S. strongly backed Hadi, and the new president proved a stauncher ally to the U.S. than Saleh in the fight against al-Qaida’s branch in the country.

From Time ● Mar. 22, 2015

Indeed, A craft stauncher than thine floats by.

From Lilith The Legend of the First Woman by Ada Langworthy Collier

When negotiations grew difficult, he could become inflexible, leaving even the bill’s staunchest allies in the Senate feeling slighted, people involved in the process said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

The bill is named after the late Senator Lindsey Graham, one of Ukraine's staunchest defenders in Washington before his death on 11 July.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Laura Ingraham, one of Trump’s staunchest on-air defenders, wondered aloud on her Fox show on Monday.

From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2026

Cambodia has long been one of China's staunchest allies in Southeast Asia, and Beijing has extended its influence over Phnom Penh in recent years.

From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026

There was my mom, my staunchest support, whose vigilance had saved me from languishing in a dreary second-grade classroom.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama