Thesaurus results for MEDIATORS

mediators

noun

plural of mediator

as in negotiators

one who works with opposing sides in order to bring about an agreement if you two cannot resolve this argument on your own, we'll have to bring in a mediator

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Recent Examples of mediators In the days before the midterms, Qatari mediators had plunged into a fresh round of furtive diplomacy between the United States and Iran, but talks are still at an impasse. — Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2026 Negotiations will continue Friday with the help of federal mediators, the PMA said. — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 5 Nov. 2026 Talks that stagnated over the summer have picked up in the past week, with Tehran sending officials to Qatari mediators who are circulating proposals with Washington. — Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2026 Indirect talks via Qatari, Pakistani and Saudi mediators are understood to be underway. — CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026 Araghchi said mediators are discussing the proposal Iran made during the United Nations General Assembly in September. — Spencer Kimball,justina Lee, CNBC, 2 Nov. 2026 Iranian negotiators met with Qatari mediators over the weekend for talks on ending the war. — Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2026 Muslims can similarly turn to religious scholars or mediators for guidance on family or financial disputes. — Asma Uddin, The Conversation, 29 Oct. 2026 There has been little said publicly about negotiations via mediators after Trump rejected an Iranian proposal last month to end the war and fully open the Strait of Hormuz within a week if Washington met certain conditions like lifting the blockade. — ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026

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Noun

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

Definition of negotiators

Noun

Thanks to African intermediaries guiding these military explorers, Binger discovered that the fabled Kong Mountains, which stretched across most 19th-century maps, did not exist.

— Thomas J Bassett, The Conversation, 29 Oct. 2026
In diving into the global web of handlers, financial intermediaries and money launderers bolstering the fake identities, investigators discovered key parts of that machinery operating in Russia.

— Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of intermediaries

Noun

The commissioner oversees an office with 1,400 employees that regulates more than 1,700 home, auto, workers’ compensation and other insurers, as well as more than 510,000 agents, brokers, adjusters, bail agents and other business entities.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026
As the value of their investments drops, funds that borrowed to buy those stocks can face demands from lenders or brokers to put up more cash or collateral.

— Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of brokers

Noun

Rita, whose parents were renowned as peacemakers, forgave her husband's killers.

— Adam Harrington, CBS News, 6 Oct. 2026
What matters are the peacemakers, and the true tension of the series rests in their decisions to either respond to provocation in kind or to respond to provocation with kindness.

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of peacemakers

Noun

The dispute is also triggering diplomatic fallout, with at least three Polish ambassadors resigning in protest.

— Tyler Speicher, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2026
The center was publicly unveiled Friday by current and former administrators at South Holland School District 151, along with a handful of student ambassadors.

— Janice Neumann, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of ambassadors

Noun

There could also be a bipartisan pushback on the rising cost of hospital care as well as pharmacy benefit managers, which act as middlemen to negotiate drug prices and rebates on behalf of insurers and employers.

— Berkeley Lovelace Jr, NBC news, 5 Nov. 2026
Llusia-Lindh immediately cut out the middlemen, went directly to factories and aspired to make a luxury product while keeping a lid on prices — and giving back.

— Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of middlemen

Noun

However, Central Florida election supervisors are not reporting any problems with their local postal service liaisons.

— Christie Zizo, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2026
Their story begins with traditional performers—later called shuyu—who, like the geisha of Japan, might engage in liaisons with patrons.

— H.M.A. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of liaisons

Noun

These volatile compound intermediates shuttle and dissolve from the cathode, draining battery life.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2026
Meanwhile, at the back of the pack, some of the drivers who started on slicks made stops to change to the intermediates.

— Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 5 Oct. 2026

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