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as in messengers
one that carries a message or does an errand
I won't act as go-between between you and your ex
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as in mediators
one who works with opposing sides in order to bring about an agreement
acted as go-between for the two warring nations during the peace process
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Recent Examples of go-betweens
As go-betweens, these enablers are tasked with making sure that the top management’s vision for automation can be applied sensibly in practice—not just on paper.
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Arthur Azizov, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Arthur Azizov, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for go-betweens
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While Bob struggles to charge the low-tech phone that’ll connect him with the French 75, Sensei coordinates skateboarders as messengers and directs his relatives and employees to evacuate the dozens of migrants his family is sheltering to a nearby church.—
Robert Daniels,
Time,
10 Oct. 2025
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Teachers are messengers of knowledge and education.—
Ikram Talaat Ahmed,
Literary Hub,
6 Oct. 2025
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The deal calls for the creation of a joint task force, including the United States and other mediators, to share information about the remains and try to find them.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
16 Oct. 2025
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Israeli officials say the group must now provide full accounting for all deceased hostages, while mediators work to preserve a deal that has so far halted two years of devastating conflict.—
Callum Sutherland,
Time,
15 Oct. 2025
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Sometimes scammers have even sent couriers to their targets’ homes to collect money.—
Madhusree Mukerjee,
Scientific American,
8 Oct. 2025
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From car couriers to bikes to sidewalk robots and now drones, Uber is aiming to build the most flexible delivery network in the world.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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By embracing a direct-to-consumer sales model, drugmakers can bypass middlemen such as pharmacy benefit managers and potentially capture some of the billions of dollars in revenue that flow through those intermediaries each year.—
Annika Kim Constantino,Bertha Coombs,
CNBC,
7 Oct. 2025
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Measures also include restricting dollar-clearing and maritime insurance, blacklisting intermediaries and dark fleet tankers, and targeting front companies.—
Robert Muggah,
The Conversation,
2 Oct. 2025
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The middlemen, known as pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, have been around since the late 1960s and serve as intermediaries between drug manufacturers and health insurance providers.—
Kate Wolffe,
Sacbee.com,
11 Oct. 2025
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This type of direct contracting could generate substantial savings in cases when the middlemen model is set up at the expense of patients.—
Bobby Jindal,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
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This time around in talks with studios, union negotiators will be facing a new but familiar opponent on the other side of the table after longtime studio negotiator Carol Lombardini stepped down.—
Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Aug. 2025
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Headlining the group is more than two dozen ambassadorial appointments, including Sergio Gor, a top White House aide, and former Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker to become the top liaisons to India and the Bahamas.—
Al Weaver,
The Hill,
7 Oct. 2025
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That kind of interpretation worried other outside liaisons, who participate in ACIP meetings but don’t vote on vaccine policy recommendations to the CDC like members of the committee do.—
Meg Tirrell,
CNN Money,
4 Oct. 2025
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The package implements health certification requirements, voids contracts between brokers and consumers that require deposits and bans brokers from selling animals in the state.—
Caelyn Pender,
Mercury News,
13 Oct. 2025
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And help may be harder to find because some insurers no longer pay brokers commissions for new business.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
12 Oct. 2025
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“Go-betweens.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/go-betweens. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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