principal player
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, Moe wanted to know what we were going to do for Evelyn Russell, who at 31 was deemed too ancient to be the Princess but was a principal player.
From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2022
Still, it’s a hell of a what if, one made all the more intriguing by its principal player.
From Slate • Feb. 1, 2018
My father excelled as a musician and was admitted to the People’s Liberation Army Air Force, where he was a principal player in the orchestra.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2016
She was a principal player in the brief history of the Mormon Church.
From Salon • Apr. 20, 2014
The other principal player in the emergence of tectonics theory, Harry Hess, was also at Princeton at the time, and would spend the rest of his career there.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
