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
Over time, the tradition expanded and parents take the pictures of their daughters they want to marry off but have no suitors to a traditional matchmaker to find them a lover.
From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026
She once hired a matchmaker, and recently attended a run club.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025
The humor of “Fiddler” was well accounted for in Lisa Fishman’s Yente, the matchmaker involved in everybody’s business.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 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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