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linchpin

noun as in cornerstone

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The Higgs boson is the linchpin of the Standard Model and the key to why the double simplex arrangement makes sense.

None of them are experts in epidemiology — the study of how diseases affect populations, a linchpin of particulate matter research.

In fact, building a sizable beauty was a linchpin of Kohl’s “Greatness Agenda” in 2014, with the company hoping beauty would grow from 2% of sales then to 5% in short order, helped by so-called “beauty concierges.”

From Fortune

The demonstration that something like a linchpin of modern metabolism could have emerged under mild, minimally demanding conditions therefore makes a prebiotic origin for the TCA cycle look more feasible, which the metal catalyst experiments did not.

The principal hotspot is the HBO Max streaming service, the linchpin in AT&T’s gigantic strategic shift toward video content.

From Fortune

At the moment, Yisrael Beiteinu is the linchpin of the coming rightist government.

Bolshevism was the linchpin that held all the other facets of conspiracy together.

It was one courier in particular that proved the linchpin in Sunday night's operation that killed the al Qaeda leader.

Civilian control is still the constitutional linchpin uniting defender and defended.

Upon inspection, the losses of the day were found to be one linchpin and one pair of pantaloons.

His famous monologue with his imaginary friend "Linchpin" invariably brought the house down.

Had he withdrawn some linchpin of ordinary conduct from the wheel on which the whole world revolves?

The drawbolt on a linchpin wagon usually has a head made in the form of the jaws of a wrench.

The government had sent him in pursuit of a golden chariot, and he found more than the linchpin.

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On this page you'll find 93 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to linchpin, such as: essential, foundation, keystone, mainstay, pillar, and anchor.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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