linchpin
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The petrodollar, in this telling, is the linchpin supposedly keeping the architecture of dollar dominance standing.
From Barron's • May 27, 2026
Trade is another linchpin to this week’s superpower summit.
From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026
The incident comes at a key moment, as negotiators from Mexico, the United States and Canada work to revise a free-trade accord that is a linchpin of the Mexican economy.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026
Britain’s National Crime Agency later identified Coral as a linchpin of Russia’s oil market.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
Oppenheimer’s dissembling would be exploited by Strauss and Robb to discredit virtually his every word, becoming a linchpin of the campaign to destroy him.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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