gatekeeper

Example Sentences

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He soon became his grandfather’s shadow, the gatekeeper who holds Raúl Castro’s telephone, passing or not passing messages and documents along.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Boshra married the son of Khamanei's longstanding gatekeeper and chief of staff, the cleric Mohammad Mohammadi Golpayegani.

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

Along with Ticketmaster, which it purchased in 2010, Live Nation puts on concerts, sells tickets and owns venues, serving multiple roles that US regulators said had turned it into a "gatekeeper" for the industry.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

It follows a broader trend of airlines focusing on high-earning business travelers over casual leisure flyers, with credit cards increasingly serving as the gatekeeper to the best travel benefits.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 19, 2026

He replaced a worker named Robert Latimer, who had quit to take over as gatekeeper at the rail intersection in front of Holmes’s drugstore.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson