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

But before Stein was a mover and shaker, his passion for music helped change the contours of the industry.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2023

“He was the main mover and shaker in rebuilding labor’s political clout,” Steve Rosenthal, a former AFL-CIO political director, told the Times of Mr. McEntee in 2011.

From Washington Post • Jul. 11, 2022

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

All eyes are on an agent: a protagonist, a mover and shaker, a driving force.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker