yenta

Example Sentences

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I don’t know if you are or not, but there is an expression called a yenta, which is a matchmaker.

From Slate • Feb. 6, 2018

For Midler, it’s the yenta of Jerry Herman-Michael Stewart’s forever bubbly “Hello, Dolly!” that requires her to synthesize all her many gifts in a musical comedy cocktail that has been leaving audiences drunk with pleasure.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2017

He is in fact the soul of the 18th-century Enlightenment in the body of a 21st-century Yorkshire yenta wearing bicycle clips.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2017

Enter Miranda, Charlotte, Carrie and Samantha, the yin, yang, yenta and yeah, baby! of the female psyche.

From Salon • May 25, 2010

It’s not outrageous to trace a line from experiments today on dating sites to coming machine-learning systems that will be able to make better matches than a neighborhood yenta.

From Newsweek