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Meanings of linchpin in English
Portuguese
ponto fulcral Catalan
àncora Synonyms
Examples for "anchor"
Examples for "anchor"
1
The ships dropped anchor; the boats were lowered; the people went ashore.
2
EU membership is widely seen as an anchor for the reform process.
3
The anchor plunged into the water of the harbour; the shrieking ceased.
4
After numerous storms, the sea is still there, anchor Kang Hui said.
5
Currently we have an 'anchor' tenant in the form of, Emirates Airlines.
1
Dairy products remained the backbone of exports, and fruit exports were strong.
2
They are the backbone of all drama; and I love drama inordinately.
3
THERE was no doubt that mothers were the backbone of Irish society.
4
Unlike in other countries, reserve forces are the backbone of Israel's military.
5
The President and I cannot prevent certain politicians from losing their backbone.
1
I think the text might tell us how to open the keystone.
2
Will car-sharing become a keystone of the sharing economy in urban areas?
3
Socialized medicine is the keystone to the arch of the socialist state.
4
This section of the country is the keystone of the Southern arch.
5
Robert Langdon was in possession of the keystone, and he needed help.
1
Of most concern is damage to agriculture, the mainstay of the economy.
2
However, the country's mainstay copper industry was mostly unharmed by the tremor.
3
Volunteers are the mainstay of many activities available to the disability sector.
4
Results: En bloc resection remains the mainstay of therapy with curative intent.
5
Auto deals, the mainstay of the ABS market, attracted the most interest.
1
Social workers and GPs can be an important lynchpin of whole-system reform.
2
Take their approach to steamed milk, the lynchpin of any good latte.
3
It was a lynchpin for Syndic defenses in that region of space.
4
It means Brian Cody rates him as the lynchpin of this Kilkenny team.
5
To describe her as the lynchpin of the community would be an understatement.
Usage of linchpin in English
1
For now, German Chancellor Angela Merkel remains the linchpin of the continent.
2
He'd seen Invaders from Mars, too; it was a linchpin between us.
3
Albertine was the band's linchpin and was always good with the verbals.
4
Actively managed funds have been the linchpin of the Johnson family's fortune.
5
Every step forward is a further unraveling, each linchpin a loose wire.
6
The trucks are also a linchpin in GM's ongoing battle with No.
7
The linchpin for repacking in the adenosine binding site is residue 351.
8
The Fumbally has become the linchpin around which Dublin's best cafes revolve.
9
Ciarán Hinds, battered and leonine, is the linchpin of The Night Alive.
10
The linchpin of his success: the increasingly popular strategy known as asset-based lending.
11
Will they survive, are they the linchpin for a new Government?
12
Phoenix second-year forward Josh Jackson was the linchpin behind several of those runs.
13
This is the linchpin of federal prosecutions of local police officers.
14
The linchpin of its social existence was gone and could not be replaced.
15
The Seville Boston-folks consider it the linchpin, at least, of this rolling universe.
16
Assistant U.S. Attorney Nathaniel Yeager described Kapoor as the linchpin of the scheme.
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