linchpin
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(noun) a locking pin inserted crosswise (as through the end of an axle or shaft) / (noun) one that serves to hold together parts or elements that exist or function as a unit
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linchpin
The Bretton Woods system, already set out in 1944, posited the dollar as the sole linchpin holding together the edifice of global trade and finance.
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The linchpin of this social order was the Shah dynasty.
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Missouri, the country's cartographic linchpin
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