matchmaker
Example Sentences
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Not only is Rousey headlining the card, she has played a key role in shaping it, playing the role of promoter and matchmaker behind the scenes.
From BBC • May 15, 2026
After waiting for years for a suitor, Aisha is frustrated and has turned now to enlist the services of an online matchmaker site to find a husband of her dreams: rich and educated.
From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026
Dean has become a kind of matchmaker, pairing neighbors’ needs with volunteers’ skills and, in the process, strengthening the sense of mattering of everyone who walks through the door.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 17, 2026
Jay, with his bouffant curly hair and preternatural ability to remember the smallest details, became a de facto musical matchmaker.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2025
She and Wu Tsing had been joined in tyandi, heaven and earth, so theirs was a spiritual marriage arranged by a matchmaker, ordered by his parents, and protected by the spirits of their ancestors.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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