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Definition of Lynchpins
1. lynchpin [n] - See also: lynchpin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lynchpins
Literary usage of Lynchpins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Regulatory Reform in Denmark by Oecd (2000)
"Governance The grid companies will be the lynchpins of the sector for the
foreseeable future as they are taking on the ownership of most of the existing ..."
2. Avery Glibun, Or, Between Two Fires: A Romance by Robert Henry Newell (1867)
""You knew me, then, when I was a top-sawyer, and also when my lynchpins began to
work out ; but you never knew me to cut-in before a friend, or break-up for ..."
3. Human Rights Watch World Report 2000 by Human Rights Watch (Organization), Human Rights Watch Staff, Human Rights Watch (1999)
"They were the lynchpins in the US-led plans for the military and diplomatic
containment of the government of Sudan, considered by the US to be an exporter ..."
4. The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays by Sterling Andrus Leonard (1921)
"THE GIRL (with a shiver). Nor p'r'aps 'e is n't. THE MAN. Like as not. It takes
the lynchpins out, I tell you. THE GIRL. ..."
5. Marshall's Practical Marine Gunnery: Containing a View of the Magnitude by George Marshall (1822)
"1st, The rack—2nd, the stops—3rd, the transom—4th, the trucks—5th, the axle-trees
6th, the lynchpins—7th, the bolts and rings—8th, the beds and quoins—9th, ..."
6. Human Rights Watch World Report 1999 by Human Rights Watch Staff (1998)
"In some people's view, the lynchpins were supposed to be Uganda and Ethiopia.
As the "new leaders" policy disintegrated, the effects were inevitably felt in ..."
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