How to Use lynchpin in a Sentence
lynchpin
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The casting came down to Ryan Reynolds and Bradley Cooper, but the lynchpin was the mask.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2023
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For me, a cup of tea has become the lynchpin of that routine.
—Amanda Tarlton and Tessa Bahoosh, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2020
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Trusts execute the estate plan, and the trustee is the lynchpin of any trust.
—Matthew Erskine, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
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Kristen was one of the stars when this started and a lynchpin for the drama for the rest of the season.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 4 June 2024
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But throughout the show, the lynchpin of the motif is Prince Philip himself.
—Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 9 Nov. 2022
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But all agree that the Doha agreement was a lynchpin in the collapse.
—Lolita C. Baldor, USA TODAY, 18 May 2022
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Who knew all that talk about Juliette stealing the heat tape would be the lynchpin to the whole story?
—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 30 June 2023
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The Saturday night would of course be the lynchpin for the festival.
—Steve Baltin, Forbes, 1 June 2021
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The matchup also is the lynchpin to a day of programming planned for over a year — and in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
—Joe Reedy, Star Tribune, 6 Feb. 2021
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But for Southeast Side activists, the deal is a lynchpin in their civil rights complaint.
—Michael Hawthorne, chicagotribune.com, 13 Aug. 2020
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To the free world, a peaceful Taiwan is a lynchpin of democracy and a role model of freedom.
—Keith Krach, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2022
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Murkowski was a top target for Trump, who has made this year's midterm cycle the lynchpin of his crusade to purge the GOP of any critics.
—Bytal Axelrod, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2022
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Both of their mothers' beating cancer is such a huge lynchpin for them, in my opinion.
—Brett Nicole, PEOPLE.com, 20 Apr. 2022
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For the Current, the riverfront stadium is the lynchpin to the team’s financial success.
—Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 22 June 2022
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Contrary to the portrayal of Oregon as the lynchpin, Washington was the key block in the Jenga tower.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2024
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The center is also the lynchpin of Stanford’s defense, notching 3.3 blocks per game.
—Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
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As the lynchpin of the prosecution's case, it will be analyzed frame by frame throughout the trial.
—CBS News, 27 Nov. 2021
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Rick Fox, a former Los Angeles Lakers player, is the lynchpin of the new housing project.
—Hanna Ziady, CNN, 7 Nov. 2022
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The fate of the unknown killer, however, will likely be the dramatic lynchpin of Season 4.
—Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 20 May 2022
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The lynchpin of this system holds that the economic system is rigged against the average person.
—Clifford Young, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
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Viserys is of course the most vital character in House of the Dragon Season 1—a true lynchpin to the events in what's turned out to be something of a prologue to the civil war that's to come.
—Evan Romano, Men's Health, 10 Oct. 2022
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The lynchpin character for Miles, however, turned out to be Hobie Brown, a.k.a.
—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 5 June 2023
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In the 1930s, Roosevelt struck unpalatable compromises with Democrats in the South who were a lynchpin of his electoral coalition.
—Ryan D. Doerfler, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2020
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The Spanish Fort product has appeared in 13 games, logging seven starts last season with four as a sixth lineman, and is the lynchpin for a unit seeking its own respect.
—Evan Dudley, al, 12 July 2023
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For more than two decades, Live Nation has been the lynchpin for the vast and now nearly complete consolidation of the live music industry.
—Ron Knox, Wired, 16 Mar. 2021
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His second collection for next fall and winter turns largely on color, with the brand’s famous knitwear the lynchpin element.
—Colleen Barry, ajc, 25 Feb. 2023
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But a June 1 deadline would create new urgency for the world's wealthiest nation and the lynchpin of the global economic system.
—Adam Carlson, ABC News, 2 May 2023
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Nuclear power is the lynchpin of the clean energy transition, but the U.S., Canada, and their allies need stable supply chains.
—Leigh R. Curyer, Fortune, 15 June 2023
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For nearly a year, the election has been the lynchpin of international efforts to bring peace to the oil-rich North African nation, and supporters fear a dangerous void if it is not held on schedule.
—Samy Magdy, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Dec. 2021
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Bronze became the lynchpin for nascent civilizations in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and elsewhere in the Fertile Crescent, where it was fashioned into weapons and ornamental objects.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 10 May 2024
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