noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
male
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They have rewritten the record books, stormed the male bastion of Grandmaster chess, and defied the laws of probability.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A bastion of male privilege on the rocky Dublin shoreline, so called because of the water depth.
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In colonial times, Western missionaries would dash off to bastions of other faiths to preach the Gospel.
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Its empire had collapsed, its protective ring of island bastions smashed, its people on the verge of starvation.
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Male bastions like the pub, the football stadium and the military have been stormed.
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No Socialist bastion remained intact, no government minister or party leader unthreatened.
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Silly though it may have seemed at first, these all-male secret societies are bastions of extraordinary power and influence.
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The bureaucrats in their Brussels bastion wrongly presumed that bigger is better.
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They manned the towers and bastions and the great gates were shut fast.