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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Another mainstay of the opera company is Tatiana Troyanos.
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Tourism has long been the economic mainstay of Kashmir.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But more than being a mainstay of fashion, the T-shirt is an enduring medium of advertising.
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For one thing, he came out and said he hated funk, a Peppers mainstay .
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Middle class women, once the mainstay of all volunteer endeavors, are no longer an unlimited resource.
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Milk products typical of nomadic pastoralists formed the mainstay of their diet.
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The mainstay of treatment is a twice daily form of physiotherapy, usually done by the child's parents.