matchmaker
Example Sentences
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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
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.