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US
/ˈɫɪntʃˌpɪn/
]
[ UK /lˈɪntʃpɪn/ ]
[ UK /lˈɪntʃpɪn/ ]
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 linchpin In A Sentence
- Nurses will be the linchpin to the Government's grandiose plans to modernise and improve the National Health Service, one of their leaders says.
- By early June, with the plan seemingly stillborn, he began to search for a compromise that could salvage the linchpin of his program.
- Boston Globe: A health plan linchpin commands respect POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: August 18, 2009
- Yet habit is the linchpin for the philosophical way of thinking that James called radical empiricism, and later pragmatism.
- One of the linchpins of what I've described as the tiresome argument is the question of what it means to be human. The Speculist: Human Savants
- His crisp, precise passage work and lovely cantabile, his wide variety of tonal colouring and superb dynamic control, together with his flawless sense of rhythm ensured his position as linchpin of both these excellent ensembles.
- As such, it is the critical aspect of making art, the linchpin that unites theory with practice and conjoins the intellect and the hand.
- Divas are often the financial linchpins for opera productions costing hundreds of thousands of dollars.
- The linchpin of the deployment is Exercise Rapid Alliance, involving two American carrier battlegroups and a US Marine Corps task force, staging mock invasions.
- Power-dressers in the 1980s added shoulder pads to their twinsets and the garment became the linchpin of conservative chic.