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matchmaker

[mach-mey-ker] / ˈmætʃˌmeɪ kər /




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So he and Harvey decided to play matchmaker.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

After waiting for years for a suitor, Aisha is frustrated and has turned now to enlist the services of an online matchmaker site to find a husband of her dreams: rich and educated.

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

Dean has become a kind of matchmaker, pairing neighbors’ needs with volunteers’ skills and, in the process, strengthening the sense of mattering of everyone who walks through the door.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 17, 2026

A movie where the perennially single New York matchmaker has finally met her match in two highly eligible bachelors?

From Salon • Jun. 14, 2025

Instead, the village matchmaker came to my family when I was just two years old.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan