Examples of kingpin in a Sentence
kingpins of the movie industry
a police sting that nabbed several kingpins of the city's drug trade
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Five decades later, Microsoft stands as a survivor of tech’s brutal evolutionary cycles, transforming from a scrappy BASIC interpreter vendor to an operating system kingpin, an internet also-ran, a stagnating giant, and now a cloud computing and AI player worth almost $3 trillion.
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Jackie Snow, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2025
The actor joins Forest Whitaker who leads the award-winning television show as Bumpy Johnson, infamous kingpin.
—Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 11 Mar. 2025
Brügger, who’s made a specialty of exposing corruption, human rights, and law-violating kingpins, sees an opportunity to question the myth of Denmark as the least corrupt country in the world, a welfare state supposedly built on trust.
—Annika Pham, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
One of their biggest hits is Tulsa King, which features Sylvester Stallone as a mob kingpin who sets up an operation in the sleepy town of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2025
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Jackie Snow, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2025
The actor joins Forest Whitaker who leads the award-winning television show as Bumpy Johnson, infamous kingpin.
—Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 11 Mar. 2025
Brügger, who’s made a specialty of exposing corruption, human rights, and law-violating kingpins, sees an opportunity to question the myth of Denmark as the least corrupt country in the world, a welfare state supposedly built on trust.
—Annika Pham, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
One of their biggest hits is Tulsa King, which features Sylvester Stallone as a mob kingpin who sets up an operation in the sleepy town of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2025
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“Kingpin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kingpin. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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