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UK
/lˈɪntʃpɪn/
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NOUN
- pin inserted through an axletree to hold a wheel on
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a central cohesive source of support and stability
faith is his anchor
he is the linchpin of this firm
the keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft money
How To Use lynchpin In A Sentence
- He's the lynchpin of our team and crucial to my long-term plans.
- She should know - as an exchange student from France to the U.S. during high school, Guiliano gained 20 pounds chowing down on McDonalds and other lynchpins of the American diet.
- Holt, who Allcock describes as his friend and protégé, did not let him down with an outstanding display of bowling as the lynchpin of the team.
- The ‘lynchpin’ unit will be based in London and manned with 40 specialised officers, headed by detective chief superintendent Len Hynds.
- Etherington adopts an apt change in registration, giving vent to the diapasons that would have been the lynchpin of organs in Handel's own time.
- For a while, it constituted the lynchpin of the Mertonian school of the sociology of science.
- Disguised as customers, agents of the three US film companies and public notaries bought a series of popular DVDs at the defendants' outlets and then used the evidence as the lynchpin to their case.
- The lynchpins of the album are undoubtedly two early, majestic songs that distill the mix of the down-to-earth and the interstellar to its purest state.
- Mayor Tom Leppert argued in recent months that the tollway is the lynchpin for several billion dollars of related highway-improvement projects, and eliminating it could cause federal authorities to withhold funding for those projects. Dallas Voters Appear
- Our Richard Quest is in that lynchpin state trying to determine precisely what a Buckeye is.
