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Example sentences for: mainstay

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More than a quarter of Macau's workforce is employed by the casino and gambling industries, and while gambling is illegal on the mainland, China's promise to maintain the capitalist system in the territory for the next 50 years means that gambling will most likely remain the mainstay of Macau's economy.
So far the mainstay of treatment for postpartum depression has rested with oral antidepressants, specifically the SSRI's.
Nouns and verbs are the mainstay of the metaphors treated, but adjectives are in very short supply.
While a fungus makes penicillin, semisynthetic derivatives of which have been a mainstay of antibacterial therapy for decades, most natural antibacterial antibiotics come from a group of soil-dwelling, filamentous bacteria called the actinomycetes, of which
In general--and this observation is a mainstay of college statistics courses--when you think you've seen something unusual, you're more likely to be mistaken than when you think you've seen something ordinary.