Thesaurus results for GATEKEEPER

gatekeeper

noun

ˈgāt-ˌkē-pər

as in janitor

a person who tends a door those who are hopelessly unhip have little chance of making past the club's gatekeeper and his velvet rope

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Recent Examples of gatekeeper To create a fair market, a key rule lets third parties access the same OS hardware and software features that a gatekeeper company can use. —

Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 10 June 2026 Hip-hop’s gatekeepers have never mattered less. —

John Kennedy, VIBE.com, 9 June 2026 That review has been a mainstay of America's health system, with the FDA acting as a gatekeeper to protect the public from unsafe or ineffective drugs. —

Daniel Gilbert, CBS News, 8 June 2026 Coughlin used the new medium of radio in the 1930s to bypass traditional gatekeepers and reach millions of people directly with his nativist, antisemitic and pro-Nazi screeds. —

Donie O'Sullivan, CNN Money, 6 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for gatekeeper

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In the report, the student said Looney was walking to lunch at the school on March 3, 2025, when Looney asked for their social media contact information from the janitor’s closet, the statement said.

— Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 17 June 2026
That means someone can get hired by UCHealth as a janitor, for example, then eventually become a nurse after enrolling in the system’s training program — at no cost.

— Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 14 June 2026