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Eventually, DeCrow and Seidenberg filed suit against the East Village mainstay.

De Robertis, an East Village mainstay, closes tomorrow—a moment for nostalgia, but also pragmatism.

Conceptually, the “Angel of Death” was a cultural mainstay in continental Europe and the British Isles by the late Middle Ages.

Foreign fighters are a mainstay of the rebellion against Assad.

The one problem with Braley's remark is that it happened to reflect on a fellow Iowan who is a mainstay of Hawkeye State politics.

It is with profound regret that we cannot point to Harwood as a football hero or the mainstay of the crew.

We find a strong offset to the horror of Aztec cruelty in the very Bible, which we regard as the mainstay of our religious world.

Many of the Americans now fancied, like the British, that since Lee was a prisoner their mainstay was gone.

We have been told ad nauseam that the purchase system has been the mainstay of the British army.

Panto was indeed the mainstay of his business; it was even the warp and woof of his life.

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On this page you'll find 40 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mainstay, such as: backbone, bulwark, linchpin, pillar, anchor, and brace.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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