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 What followed became an exercise in thinking through what is lost—and perhaps can never be regained—when transphobes and their enablers rise to prominence as our most powerful cultural gatekeepers. —

Literary Hub, 12 Mar. 2026 Authentication has become a universal gatekeeper. —

Doug Jacobson, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2026 Meanwhile, the gatekeepers allocating this capital remain overwhelmingly male. —

Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026 Studios, producers and other gatekeepers rapidly figured out that people did not want to go back there. —

Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for gatekeeper

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Every coach, person, lunch-server, janitor and worker in the Cowboys’ headquarters in Frisco would tell you that parting with Odighizuwa was not easy.

— Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Mar. 2026
The documents also detail the scale of the personnel required to build and manage the temporary lock-up, from janitors to laundry workers to cooks, translators to legal case managers to IT staff.

— Kate Payne, Sun Sentinel, 2 Mar. 2026