kingpin

Example Sentences

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Hence the relative ease with which the regime gave up its kingpin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

It also made him a kingpin and punched his ticket to serve as co-leader of the free world for several months.

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2025

Last month, the US sanctioned nine people and companies connected to Shwe Kokko and the Chinese criminal kingpin She Zhijiang, founder of the multistorey Yatai New City centre.

From Barron's • Oct. 14, 2025

Craine, who retired from the DEA and now runs a private security firm, said it’s unlikely that federal prosecutors would ever agree to a deal that gives the kingpin anything less than life in prison.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 25, 2025

Francis is wide awake and wearing his favorite-slash-only bathrobe, like he’s some kingpin whose business makes him stacks on stacks of money instead of a technician spending the little he makes on us.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera