linchpin
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Cleveland jumped to an 11-point lead in the first half before the Lakers finally got some defensive stops led by Dwight Howard and Avery Bradley, who have emerged as their defensive lynchpins.
From Fox News • Oct. 30, 2021
He was absolutely one of the lynchpins of the 1995 World Cup-winning side, up there with captain Francois Pienaar.
From BBC • Feb. 7, 2017
Together they are the lynchpins of Golden State’s most flatly unfair feature, namely the team’s “small ball” lineup, known more colloquially as the “death lineup” or “nuclear lineup.”
From Slate • Nov. 30, 2015
Character in adversity and all that, having lost two of their lynchpins in O’Connell and Sexton before the break and then their best player, O’Mahony after it.
From The Guardian • Oct. 11, 2015
It takes the lynchpins out, I tell you.
From The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays by Leonard, Sterling Andrus
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