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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a kingpin" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a person who is the central or most important figure in a particular organization or activity, often in a negative context related to crime or illegal activities.
Example: "The authorities were determined to take down the drug cartel by arresting its kingpin."
Alternatives: "a mastermind" or "a key player".
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Like a kingpin.
Its days as a kingpin were over.
In The Son, I made it a kingpin," he says.
It was a kingpin in securitising sub-prime debt.
To be a kingpin it takes being hard.
Canada's Constitution makes Mr. Klein a kingpin of Canadian energy.
A participant or a kingpin?' He said kingpin.
Van Ronk was a kingpin in the Village folk scene.
Steering is always by the Ackermann system, which provides a kingpin for each front wheel.
And Greenpeace issued a report identifying the company as a "kingpin of climate science denial".
Calderón has pursued a "kingpin strategy," like the "deck of cards" that the United States used in post-Saddam Iraq.
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