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What is a linchpin?

What is a linchpin? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A pin inserted through holes at the end of an axle, so as to secure a wheel.
  2. (figuratively) A central cohesive source of stability and security; a person or thing that is critical to a system or organisation.
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Yet habit is the linchpin for the philosophical way of thinking that James called radical empiricism, and later pragmatism.
The Trade Ministers will attempt to build bridges in the divisive but linchpin issue of farm trade.
Nuclear weapons are the linchpin neither of the U.S. position in the world nor of its security.
Nurses will be the linchpin to the Government's grandiose plans to modernise and improve the National Health Service, one of their leaders says.
He put the wheel back and secured it with a new linchpin, which he carved from a piece of wood.
By early June, with the plan seemingly stillborn, he began to search for a compromise that could salvage the linchpin of his program.

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