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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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The Trade Ministers will attempt to build bridges in the divisive but linchpin issue of farm trade.
He put the wheel back and secured it with a new linchpin, which he carved from a piece of wood.
Throughout American history, the family has been seen as the linchpin of the social order and the basis for stable governance.
The diversity and broad appeal that had been the linchpin of its success now drained away like vital oil.
The linchpin of my argument is the distinction between absolutism, relativism, and pluralism.
If I'm right about this, it's only the spelling that signals the eggcorn, because lynchpin of course sounds just like linchpin.

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