"Became a pivot" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used when one wants to emphasize the importance of something or someone in another situation. For example, "With her expertise and incredible knowledge base, she became a pivot in the success of the project."
I was as surprised as anyone when gun control became a pivot point in the Democratic Presidential primary.
But one of the achievements of the International Civil Rights Center and Museum, which is opening Monday in that former Woolworth building, is that you begin to understand how such a place became a pivot in the greatest political movement of the 20th century.
Quntar became "a pivot in the efforts of Hezbollah" to reshape the Golan Heights as a front against Israel, according to Yakov Amidror, a researcher with the BESA Center at Bar Ilan University and Israel's former national security advisor.
Almost all of you, at some point, had a crucial encounter in a classroom or outside with an insight that became a pivot point for what you think, what you feel or what you plan to do next.
One of the keys to determining whether the tsunami/meltdown will change is whether it becomes a pivot point: Does it inspire new energy innovation?
We perform one additional step that verifies, for each candidate, if it hasn't become a pivot since its distance was last refreshed by the distance computation function.
Still, the U.S. policy in Asia has become a "pivot away from China," and this position presents several key risks.
And with enough focus, institutions of higher learning could not only become a pivot point for impacting public health, but could also provide students with the life long tools for resilience needed to thrive.
If the citizens of Lincoln vote to enshrine fairness in their charter, this city could become a pivot point in the last great civil rights movement in America: the campaign to end legalized bigotry against people whose sexual orientation or gender-expression harmlessly differs from the majority's.
In February 2014, Chris Wood from YourEDM noted that "Decisions" became an "interesting pivot point" in Borgore's career, which "pushed [him] into the early stages of a pop icon within electronic music scene".
In fact, it has gone beyond a trend and has become a key pivot in business, with mobile being used at every stage of the purchasing journey.
