linchpin
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In 2024, the US Treasury described the China-based Yu as a "linchpin" of North Korea's illicit money-making activities and warned he was "skilled at employing various schemes to avoid detection".
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
The projects would have helped conserve the imperiled spiky succulents that draw millions of visitors to Joshua Tree each year and play a key role as a linchpin of the Mojave Desert ecosystem.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Zuckerberg has said consumers deserve “personal superintelligence” and Muse is the linchpin in that vision.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
But those seven stocks account for around 33% of the large-cap benchmark index, making them a linchpin of investor portfolios.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
He clutched at it frantically, grabbing it back when it started to fall as if it were the linchpin that held what was left of him together.
From "The Fighting Ground" by Avi
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