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The universities were the last bastion of freedom, but they were purged of anyone who questioned official propaganda shortly after the coup.bastion = defensive fortification
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In an era dominated by multinational corporations, the local, owner-operated bookshop stands as the last bastion, staunchly upholding the principle of local entrepreneurship and personalized customer service.bastion = prominent example upholding a principle
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These rules are a bastion against corruption.bastion = defensive fortification
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"Bastion de la Hollande," she whispers, and her fingers walk down a little staircase. (source)
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Langdon looked out at the towering stone bastions that loomed ahead-impenetrable fortifications surrounding the complex ... a strangely earthly defense for a spiritual world of secrets, power, and mystery. (source)bastions = defensive fortifications
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This side of the castle, perhaps a hundred feet high, was the pink bastion they had seen from the mountain-top. (source)bastion = defensive fortification (like a castle wall)
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And that bastion of high culture, Gilligan's Island, had an episode where Phil Silvers, famous as TV's Sergeant Bilko and therefore adding to the highbrow content, was putting together a musical Hamlet, the highlight of which was Polonius's "Neither a borrower nor a lender be" speech set to the tune of "Habanera" from Bizet's Carmen. (source)bastion = prominent example
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Very strong it might be, wrought of steel and iron, and guarded with towers and bastions of indomitable stone, yet it was the key, the weakest point in all that high and impenetrable wall. (source)bastions = defensive fortifications
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To the North there were low pale-coloured hills, in places bastioned with rock. (source)bastioned = protected
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A newly completed bastion at Cobble Hill, below Prospect Hill and fully a half mile nearer to Boston, was described in the Providence Gazette as "the most perfect piece of fortification that the American army has constructed during the present campaign." (source)bastion = defensive fortification
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No one had ever mentioned Asirgarh to her, but it had huge and noble bastions and to the right of them was a mosque. (source)bastions = defensive fortifications
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Below the window, on one of the bastioned traces on the seaward side of the hotel, waits the big 88. (source)bastioned = fortified
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I was stuck in Port Ticonderoga, proud bastion of the common-and-garden-variety button and of lower-priced long johns for budget-minded shoppers.† (source)
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Her walls were higher than Yunkai's and in better repair, studded with bastions and anchored by great defensive towers at every angle.† (source)
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He even said that "a key element of the U.S.-Soviet agenda" is "more responsible Soviet conduct around the world"—as if the United States were a bastion of "responsible conduct around the world"!† (source)
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Lanre's allies had brought about the ruin of the last bastions of the empire.† (source)
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