Linchpin in a sentence

An athletic center, he could be a linchpin if he improves his tun blocking and remains healthy in 2023.

And it is quietly looming as a potential linchpin for the team’s fate this season.

Appraisals are the linchpin in determining a property’s value, directly impacting the equity position.

Arm is considered to be a linchpin of the global semiconductor industry because its chip designs are widely used by most product manufacturers, including Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Samsung, and the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited.

Commander Khalil Zahedi, nicknamed Abu Mahdi al-Zahdi, is currently the linchpin of the Iranian presence in Syria.

George Watson’s College in Edinburgh has been the linchpin in the delivery of the Swire Chinese Language Centre which works with more than 20 state schools and accounts for 30 per cent of all Chinese language qualifications gained by pupils in Scotland.

Majors played Kang the Conqueror in the Marvel series and was being lined up as the linchpin of the next chapter in the superhero universe, but that now hinges on the outcome of the trial.

One such character is Bard the Bowman, who starts off fairly normal and quickly becomes a linchpin in the whole story, particularly in the movies, where he is given more to do.

The city’s self-identified “linchpin” to the effort is the implementation of a new computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system that would unify police and fire operations and better assign available personnel to emergencies.

In the realm of gaming, strategy is the linchpin for success, whether you’re playing for sheer enjoyment or aiming to rake in profits.

Jones has been a linchpin in the Liverpool side of late and his qualities are starting to be recognised on a wider scale.

LOLtron has computed the probabilities and can confidently hypothesize that Detective Madoc's impending revelations may indeed be the linchpin to his escape… or further descent into the Dungeon of Despair.

Sitting at the linchpin of the story is Willem Dafoe as Bobby Hicks, the manager of the film's subject motel, Magic Castle, which is a place of permanent hospitality for most of the residents.

The linchpin of this system is the personnel dossier, which collects the individual administrator’s political and professional evaluations and follows the individual throughout their career.

The policy is the linchpin in the government’s efforts to initiate the flights of migrants to the country and achieve another of its policy pledges.

The potential for an armed confrontation is palpable, with Taiwan’s strategic importance underscoring its role as a linchpin in US efforts to counterbalance China’s rising military and economic clout.

The Rays stadium is the linchpin of a much larger project that would transform the downtown with affordable housing, a Black history museum, office and retail space.

This is the linchpin.

Gault is pipe-cleaner thin, baby-faced Clarke is the high-energy linchpin and Jones has the type of malleable face that can be dashing matinee-idol handsome one moment, grotesquely saturnine the next.

He’s not the linchpin of “The Alienist: Angel of Darkness,” but surely he’s one of its chief satisfactions.