matchmaker
Example Sentences
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Aisha adjusted her beige veil over her circular-shaped headgear as a matchmaker scrolled through rows of dozens of pictures on a computer to find a man she could be interested in as a potential match.
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
The two met each other cross-country through a matchmaker after she, then Ariell Kirylo, had moved away from the L.A. area.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 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
Fischer began collecting photos of other Hungarian girls he’d like to meet, and he recruited his new friend and assistant Janos Rigo—an international master and chess organizer—-to serve as a matchmaker.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.