difference maker
Noun
Meaning
difference maker (plural difference makers)
Someone who, or something that, makes a difference.
difference-maker (plural difference-makers)
Alternative form of difference maker
Alternative names
difference-maker
Synonyms
Examples
I think every player should think that he's a difference maker.
Clemson's Isaiah Simmons is such a difference-maker, hard not to get Derwin James vibes from him.
BHS (13-4) also got 29 points out of its reserves, including a team-high 15 from Arel and 12 from Nick Snell, which was a valuable difference-maker.
From that close call to his excellent movement on the winning goal, which featured him pulling off a perfect dummy run to create space for Wood, Morris was a difference-maker yet again.
As for the potential difference-maker that a vaccine could become, Dr. Childers expects it to be that difference-maker but not until probably 2021.
He calls the alliance “the difference-maker in the 2020 vote.”