Thesaurus results for MIDDLEMEN

middlemen

noun

plural of middleman

as in intermediaries

one who works with opposing sides in order to bring about an agreement the retired statesman is often asked to be a middleman in international disputes

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Recent Examples of middlemen Fostering more price transparency and addressing cost inefficiencies created by middlemen will certainly ease some financial pain, particularly for prescription drugs. —

Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2026 Meanwhile, the remaining luxury consumers are increasingly buying from the brands themselves, cutting out middlemen like department stores. —

Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 29 Jan. 2026 The bill also drew opposition from the Florida Retail Federation, which represents pharmacies, and the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, which represents pharmacy benefit managers, which act as sort of middlemen with insurers, pharmacies and drug companies. —

News Service Of Florida, Sun Sentinel, 22 Jan. 2026 Utilities are increasingly reluctant to arrange grid connection deals with middlemen like real estate firms, preferring to deal directly with the tech companies. —

Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 22 Jan. 2026 The House and Senate are close to a bipartisan deal on a health care package that includes reforms to drug middlemen business practices and hospital billing, according to five people following the deliberations. —

John Wilkerson, STAT, 19 Jan. 2026 The crime seemed audacious even for him, and the story was hard to follow, full of unreliable middlemen and documents of uncertain authenticity. —

Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2026 While the tiny agencies, lawyers and middlemen collected millions, erasing the properties from local tax rolls stood to cost residents across the state $175 million a year. —

Eric Dexheimer, Houston Chronicle, 16 Jan. 2026 This allows companies to maintain full control over their funds while also lowering complexity, counterparty risk, and middlemen. —

William Jones, USA Today, 15 Jan. 2026

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After all, pharmacy benefit managers — which are the intermediaries between drug manufacturers and patients — collect a big chunk of every dollar spent on medicine without offering much value.

— Washington Post, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2026
Conversations were taking place late on Wednesday night, January 21, with mutual intermediaries working out potential parameters.

— Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026