Thesaurus results for BASTIONS

bastions

noun

plural of bastion

as in strongholds

a structure or place from which one can resist attack the rebel army retreated to its bastion in the mountains to regroup

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Recent Examples of bastions City types of a certain age have been dismayed at the loss of one of the Square Mile’s bastions. —

Ian King, CNBC, 18 Feb. 2026 Even among these bastions of heritage, however, few private domains can match the singular grandeur of Hillandale. —

Mark David, Robb Report, 18 Feb. 2026 While many American cities are painted as bastions of murder, a new report has revealed that this is not actually the case. —

Justin Klawans, TheWeek, 27 Jan. 2026 Wikipedia is one of the last bastions of the early internet, but that original vision of a free online space has been clouded by the dominance of Big Tech platforms and the rise of generative AI chatbots trained on content scraped from the web. —

Arkansas Online, 18 Jan. 2026 In her conversations with health officials around the country, Balfour has found that there is increasing backlash towards the growing number of people who are unhoused, even in liberal bastions such as San Francisco and Seattle. —

O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 2 Jan. 2026 After tenures at Atlanta bastions like Miller Union, pastry chef Claudia Martinez is now taking the driver’s seat with a star-studded crew behind her. —

Su-Jit Lin, Southern Living, 17 Dec. 2025 While rural areas remain conservative bastions, farmers’ patience with Washington is wearing thin. —

Josh Funk, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2025 Shrinking freedoms Institutions like Delhi University have long been celebrated as bastions of free speech and secular thought. —

Esha Mitra, CNN Money, 16 Nov. 2025

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In Dallas and Tarrant counties, considered Crockett strongholds, Democratic turnout was up by about 325% from 2022.

— John C. Moritz, Austin American Statesman, 2 Mar. 2026
Davids picked up more rural constituents in Miami, Franklin, and Anderson counties during the last round of partisan redistricting in 2022, when state lawmakers drew Lawrence and northern Wyandotte County — both progressive strongholds — out of the 3rd Congressional District.

— Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 23 Feb. 2026