mover and shaker
Example Sentences
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"So he was a real mover and shaker of the movement".
From BBC ● May 17, 2026
Jerry Jones, the NFL’s premier mover and shaker, sprinkled table salt onto the rim of his beer can in his makeshift office at Dallas Cowboys training camp in Oxnard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2026
She sold her company in 1995, just months before she died at the age of 74; in the words of her sister, “a mover and shaker all of her life.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2022
Huffman and Raskin are trying to turn their two-year-old affiliate group into more of a mover and shaker.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 2020
All eyes are on an agent: a protagonist, a mover and shaker, a driving force.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
