linchpin
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Yet looking ahead, the two linchpins will be how long energy and gas prices stay high and whether the economy can maintain a low unemployment rate.
From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026
San Francisco went into Sunday's game with a line-up decimated by an injury crisis that has deprived them of defensive linchpins Nick Bosa and Fred Warner, and receiver Ricky Pearsall among others.
From Barron's • Jan. 12, 2026
Gilligan also created “Pluribus” as a counterweight to the antihero era he helped define by contributing two unforgettable linchpins, Walter White and Saul Goodman.
From Salon • Nov. 26, 2025
Beyond that, one of the team’s linchpins showed he still has something left: tight end Travis Kelce led the Chiefs against Detroit in catches and receiving yards.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025
There was the good old custom of taking the linchpins out of the farmers' and bagmen's gigs at the fairs, and a cowardly, blackguard custom it was.
From Tom Brown's School Days by Hughes, Thomas
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