as in mediator
one who works with opposing sides in order to bring about an agreement
after all the bad blood on both sides, we need to find someone who hasn't been influenced and can act as an honest broker
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Recent Examples of honest broker
Often better equipped to pilot new programs, and better positioned to play honest broker on thorny issues, small countries are sometimes well positioned to lead multilateral efforts with more powerful nations.
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Jared Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 29 Apr. 2021
Senate Republicans expressed doubt Wednesday that Russia would back the ceasefire and warned that Putin was not an honest broker.
—Laura Kelly, The Hill, 12 Mar. 2025
Recommended The Monitor's View Hungary as honest broker Last year’s fires destroyed twice the amount of land burned during the previous record year of 1989.
—Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2024
Recommended The Monitor's View Hungary as honest broker Mr. Cardini was not inclined to vary his recipe.
—Dee-Ann Durbin, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2024
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Jared Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 29 Apr. 2021
Senate Republicans expressed doubt Wednesday that Russia would back the ceasefire and warned that Putin was not an honest broker.
—Laura Kelly, The Hill, 12 Mar. 2025
Recommended The Monitor's View Hungary as honest broker Last year’s fires destroyed twice the amount of land burned during the previous record year of 1989.
—Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2024
Recommended The Monitor's View Hungary as honest broker Mr. Cardini was not inclined to vary his recipe.
—Dee-Ann Durbin, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for honest broker
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If the two primary belligerents—Russia and Ukraine—are unwilling to stop fighting, and if both remain wary of postwar cease-fire security guarantees, China will not succeed as a third-party mediator.—
Da Wei,
Foreign Affairs,
29 July 2025
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It will be birthed by educators and engineers, by mothers and mediators, by those brave enough to imagine a future beyond vengeance.—
Margaux Chetrit,
Sun Sentinel,
23 July 2025
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Colliers commercial real estate broker John Machado represented the seller, which was a group of family trusts.—
George Avalos,
Mercury News,
25 July 2025
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Count 4 The law: A mover or moving broker’s registration isn’t valid if the mover or broker is doing business any place other than the address on the application, unless the department is first notified in writing before any location change.—
David J. Neal
July 23,
Miami Herald,
23 July 2025
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Beyoncé, an ambassador for Levi’s, dressed in outlaw drag, arrives at a semi-deserted laundromat.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
2 Aug. 2025
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Carlsen, who has also been an ambassador for the EWC, spoke to CNN Sports ahead of this year’s tournament about how the game can benefit in the digital era.—
Ben Church,
CNN Money,
1 Aug. 2025
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The shift is subtle but seismic: AI bots and agents are intermediaries, sometimes gatekeepers, determining what information is surfaced.—
Adrien Menard,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2025
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The programs initiated in 2022 marked the first time grassroots organizations could apply for federal community violence prevention funding directly, without going through law enforcement or state intermediaries, according to three former DOJ officials.—
Bianca Flowers,
USA Today,
29 July 2025
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Some private-security agencies would endeavour to secure the suites on either side of the one that their VIP will be using to act as buffers, but this is a FIFA event, so the governing body has more control.—
Elias Burke,
New York Times,
12 July 2025
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Lacking the financial buffer most for-profit startups have, they are forced to remain lean and centered.—
Raviraj Hegde,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
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She was also tapped as a liaison with the federal monitor tracking violence and use of force in the jails.—
Graham Rayman,
New York Daily News,
11 July 2025
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In the era of Babygirl and a flurry of other age-gap romance movies centering midlife women and younger men, Pretty Thing spins the trope on its head, exploring the dark side of these liaisons.—
Mara Santilli,
Flow Space,
4 July 2025
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Harry Brook was the unlikely peacemaker coming between them.—
Paul Newman,
New York Times,
1 Aug. 2025
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As the quarrel escalated, the attacker snatched the bat from the man who bumped into him and bashed the peacemaker with it multiple times about 12:50 a.m. Friday.—
Rocco Parascandola,
New York Daily News,
30 July 2025
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Out of the intermediates, Acoma has a growth habit (arching, almost weeping) unlike any other.—
Neil Sperry,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 July 2025
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Hamilton was on the right strategy — intermediates, intermediates, softs — but he was jumped by earlier stoppers Hülkenberg and Stroll; Pierre Gasly, who came in on the same lap and Ocon who didn’t pit.—
Madeline Coleman,
New York Times,
9 July 2025
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