prime mover

Example Sentences

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AI has now gone from a cool toy to a prime mover of both the economy and the stock market.

From Barron's • Oct. 10, 2025

She added he had played a lesser role and was not the prime mover.

From BBC • Jul. 6, 2023

Murdoch’s odds-on successor at the point is probably his son, Lachlan Murdoch, whom some reporters have credited with being the prime mover behind the Carlson decision, along with Suzanne Scott.

From Slate • May 1, 2023

Amber Wagner was a first-rate Brangäne, powerful but nuanced; she is a prime mover in the plot for secretly providing Tristan and Isolde with the fateful love potion.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 17, 2022

But Laura smiled softly to herself, and turned the lazy Susan at the center of the table around and around as if it were the prime mover, the first gear of her attention.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez