gatekeepers

plural of gatekeeper
as in janitors
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 gatekeepers Many YouTube creators view the studio executives as gatekeepers, the old guard that once held sway over what got made and what didn’t. Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025 As the genres have grown in popularity, the gatekeepers have continued to tighten their parameters — but the truth is, experimentation is what makes rock music in all its forms… rock. Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2025 For years, people have relied on agents as the gatekeepers of information. Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025 The idea didn’t make it past the gatekeepers; Spain’s federation and FIFA both shot it down. Asli Pelit, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025 Ricamora also wants to redirect conversations about representation toward industry gatekeepers. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025 Universities largely held a monopoly over knowledge production and served as the primary gatekeepers of intellectual legitimacy, until the digital revolution dramatically decentralized access to knowledge and its production. Chris Wegemer, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2025 The audience is out there; the gatekeepers just aren’t always the ones who connect you to them. Courtney Marsh, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2025 Who are the gatekeepers of ‘cool’ anyway? Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gatekeepers
Noun
  • Low-wage service workers, including cleaners, janitors, security guards, cafeteria workers and other staffers who keep buildings operating, are often out of luck.
    Matt Egan, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The great quarterbacks are janitors for organizational messes, smoothing over the cracks and making a bad team look competent for three hours.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 29 Sep. 2025
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  • In service jobs, Black workers labored as porters, chauffeurs, and servers; in manufacturing plants, white supremacist pseudoscience was harnessed to justify forcing Black workers to perform the most difficult and dangerous work.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The shelters were once primarily used for summer hiking trips, when porters stocked them with food, drinks, and supplies.
    Scott Yorko, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2025

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“Gatekeepers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gatekeepers. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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