How to Use gatekeeper in a Sentence

gatekeeper

noun
  • Your function is to support your boy, not be his gatekeeper.
    Dear Abby, oregonlive.com, 22 June 2019
  • Yet this new class of intellectuals serves for many as the new gatekeeper to the Right.
    Nate Hochman, National Review, 5 July 2019
  • YouTube wields enormous power as the gatekeeper of 5 billion hours of video uploaded daily.
    Washington Post, 14 June 2019
  • He himself was long shunned by the art world before his work started to sell, and his show suggests that maybe the traditional gatekeepers are not always the best arbiters of what is good and what’s not.
    Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Our cultural gatekeepers who stoke the resentment of new arrivals and turn them into grievance mongers like Ilhan Omar.
    Joey Morona, cleveland.com, 11 July 2019
  • The Supreme Court plays a gatekeeper role in deciding whether citizens’ initiatives go before voters.
    Jim Saunders, orlandosentinel.com, 25 June 2019
  • Which is a shame because of another promising potential intervention: gatekeeper training.
    Brian Resnick, Vox, 11 July 2019
  • Though, of course, the gatekeeper had tipped off the welcome team.
    Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 29 June 2023
  • Print a copy to show the gatekeeper at the park entrance.
    Holly Haber, Dallas News, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Look, the chief of staff's supposed to be a gatekeeper.
    Nbc Universal, NBC News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The good news and the bad news, there are fewer gatekeepers.
    Hal Boedeker, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Love was the gatekeeper to one of the most powerful men in sports.
    Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2022
  • But what the franchise needs most of all right now is a gatekeeper.
    John Canzano, oregonlive, 21 May 2021
  • But the Astros, for now, remain the gatekeeper to the World Series.
    Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Near the end of his life, old and frail, the man asks the gatekeeper a question: Why haven’t more people sought entrance at the door of the law?
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Yee, the gatekeeper to the state treasury, warned against doing so.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2022
  • Under Benedict, he was named the prefect of the papal household—the gatekeeper to the Pope.
    Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2023
  • And that is how many see critics today — snarling gatekeepers in need of a good kick.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The gatekeeper role that LMS not occupy is by no means bad.
    Derek Newton, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
  • In the clubby art world, no one wants to risk offending a gatekeeper to prime works.
    Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2022
  • But many SMBs don’t have the luxury of a gatekeeper to screen calls, answer the phone while the team’s busy and jot down messages.
    Gavin MacOmber, Forbes, 27 May 2022
  • Sherry-Lehmann was long considered the gatekeeper to the US market for brands from around the world.
    Katia Porzecanski, Fortune, 19 July 2023
  • And the thought arrived: Maybe this audience love is all due to the fact that Bryan snuck right past the gatekeepers and tastemakers, not in spite of that.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Speaking of gatekeepers, what are your thoughts on the writers and actors strikes?
    Alexis P. Williams, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
  • At the heart of the current dispute is the power Apple wields as the gatekeeper over who and what is distributed on the iPhone.
    Aaron Tilley, WSJ, 27 June 2021
  • For a time, Perez was close enough to influence those gatekeepers.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 19 Apr. 2023
  • He was considered a longtime friend of Ohtani’s and served as a gatekeeper for the baseball star.
    Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 23 Mar. 2024
  • The Silicon Valley heavyweights were the de facto gatekeepers for how and whether the tech would be used.
    Kashmir Hill, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
  • And the owners welcome browsers — no stuffy gatekeepers here.
    Chelsea Conaboy, New York Times, 20 June 2024
  • From technical experts in city governments to committee staff members in Congress, these experts act as gatekeepers for the information lawmakers receive.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024

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