kingmaker

Example Sentences

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As the kingmaker of the AI boom, Nvidia has invested in its own customers, strategic partners and competitors.

From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026

The result nevertheless allows it to position itself as a kingmaker in the region.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

The late ayatollah over the years weeded out potential clerical rivals, including former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who played kingmaker when Khamenei was selected as supreme leader in 1989.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

Rupert Murdoch's 70-year career saw him as "both an interventionist editor-in-chief figure and a political kingmaker", according to Paddy Manning, an investigative journalist who wrote The Successor: The High-Stakes Life of Lachlan Murdoch.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2025

In later years, I discovered that my father was not only an adviser to kings but a kingmaker.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela