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 And, those middlemen have been taking their cues from a bidding process that often has too few participants to keep prices low. —

Noah Dormady, The Conversation, 18 Feb. 2026 Eliminating drug-pricing middlemen? —

Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 16 Feb. 2026 The tech works quietly in the background, eliminating the need for searching, negotiating, or middlemen. —

Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 10 Feb. 2026 Eight out of the top 23 American companies on the Fortune 500 are health insurers and middlemen. —

Washington Post, 4 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

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Noun

As she’s stepped into the spotlight over the past six or so months, she’s decided to craft her own image with no intermediaries—which is a fancy way of saying that A’zion styles herself for her press appearances and red carpets.

— José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 17 Mar. 2026
Many of the assets are not in his own name, but instead held through a web of intermediaries, offshore companies, and business associates, Bloomberg reported.

— Emma Graham,Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 11 Mar. 2026