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
“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
The special “Vernon Jordan: Make It Plain” profiles the corporate executive, civil-rights activist and political mover and shaker.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 25, 2020
All eyes are on an agent: a protagonist, a mover and shaker, a driving force.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
