How to Use interlocutor in a Sentence

interlocutor

noun
  • In the past Oman has played the role of interlocutor between Israel and the Arab world.
    The Economist, 22 Aug. 2020
  • Oman for years has served as a key interlocutor between Iran and the West.
    Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune, 27 Aug. 2020
  • The great virtue of his book is that Baram lets his interlocutors speak for themselves.
    Gal Beckerman, New York Times, 22 May 2017
  • One by one, the interlocutors approached the would-be complainants to hear their plights.
    Madeleine Wattenbarger, Eliana Gilet, & Axel Hernández, The Dial, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Oman long has served as an interlocutor between Iran and the West.
    Jon Gambrell The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 16 June 2024
  • Oman long has served as an interlocutor between both Iran and the Houthis during the war.
    Jon Gambrell, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2023
  • When drafting your next email, be sure to check in on your interlocutor first and then get down to business.
    Loubna Noureddin, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The trip was widely interpreted as a means for Abe, one of the few leaders with close ties to both the US and Iran, to serve as an interlocutor.
    Adam Rasmi, Quartz, 13 June 2019
  • Ben Whishaw, shot in black and white, says his name is Arthur Rimbaud and speaks in aphorisms to some unknown interlocutor.
    Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2024
  • The set of her jaw is as expressive as her eyes, which can slice right through an errant interlocutor.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2020
  • His dark eyes, which don’t register delight in the way that his slow smile does, rarely stray from his interlocutor.
    The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
  • McGurk has served as the administration's chief interlocutor in the on-and-off talks.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 6 Dec. 2024
  • All three leaders have been key interlocutors in efforts to tamp down tensions in the Middle East and bring an end to the Israel-Hamas war.
    Arkansas Online, 8 Apr. 2025
  • My interlocutors had a range of views on this, but in general the Gazans were skeptical.
    Rachel Lu, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
  • One of the learnings here is that developers should think of LLMs as a language interlocutor, rather than a source of truth.
    Sridhar Ramaswamy, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Not to be outdone, one of Kate’s interlocutors makes her case by dragging a massive map of unclear origin across the floor to make a point.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Thus the thunderings from Ms. May – and her EU interlocutors, too.
    Ruth Walker, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 May 2017
  • Alice’s chief interlocutor is her brother Japhy (Justin Kirk), who floats in and out of the play with spectral freedom.
    Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Desmond gives Keiran a chance to get revenge by spilling his guts about the insurgency, but Keiran’s hate for his interlocutor stands in his way.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Voss tells you to mirror your interlocutor’s body language, and to parrot her last few words as a question.
    Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Ray is spindly, with a mass of gray curls, rimless glasses, and the slight, kindly stoop of a man who makes an effort to meet his interlocutor halfway.
    Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Each of the paintings has an interlocutor: a sculpture belonging to a series that Rose calls Loops.
    The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Egypt, a key interlocutor with Hamas, is a key target of US diplomacy.
    Stephen Collinson, CNN, 18 May 2021
  • Those who have spoken in-depth with him over the years describe a difficult interlocutor.
    Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Campbell’s interlocutor goes on to ask what brought about his collapse.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Nadia addresses these thoughts to an interlocutor who is nowhere to be seen.
    Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025
  • However, one of our roles is to be the interlocutor with law enforcement.
    Eric Berger, sun-sentinel.com, 15 June 2021
  • Be straightforward, keep to the point and make sure your interlocutor understands you.
    Alex Lutskiy, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
  • But a wide gulf in expectations exists between Russia, Ukraine and their US interlocutors.
    Anna Chernova, CNN, 24 Mar. 2025
  • These chatbots are different because their outputs are unpredictable; they are designed to learn from the user, and to build strong emotional bonds in the process, often by mirroring and amplifying the interlocutor’s beliefs.
    Ellen Barry, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025

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