negotiator

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Recent Examples of negotiator Meanwhile, Vice President JD Vance — the administration’s lead negotiator with Iran — has suggested that military force alone won’t be enough to fully dismantle Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz. Jomana Karadsheh, CNN Money, 19 July 2026 An Iranian negotiator said Tehran was suspending its commitments to the interim deal signed about a month ago and aimed at permanently ending the fighting. Arkansas Online, 19 July 2026 The comments came hours after a negotiator said Tehran was suspending its commitments to the interim deal signed about a month ago. Jon Gambrell, Fortune, 18 July 2026 On Wednesday, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who is both Iran’s speaker of parliament and the country’s chief negotiator, left the door open to diplomacy. Robin Wright, New Yorker, 17 July 2026 Graham’s death deprives the Senate of not only a reliable Republican vote, but also a negotiator who often helped assemble coalitions on national security issues, judicial nominations, and budget legislation. Nik Popli, Time, 13 July 2026 As described in this November 2025 article, the co-defendants were Texas resident Kevin Martin, a ransomware negotiator for DigitalMint, and Georgia resident Ryan Goldberg, an incident manager at security firm Sygnia. Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 10 July 2026 Proving himself capable Meanwhile, Rodríguez Castro has shown himself a negotiator. Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 6 July 2026 In a fresh update from Iran, parliament speaker and chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has said the country is selling oil at a 20% premium to pre-war crude prices. Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 1 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for negotiator
Noun
  • Iran also broadened its retaliatory strikes, hitting Bahrain, Kuwait and mediator Qatar.
    ABC News, ABC News, 18 July 2026
  • This is creating an entirely new way of communicating, where autonomous systems act as mediators in our online engagement.
    Sammy Ahmed, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Noun
  • Each of them is a working ambassador for the brand, and each was brought into the partnership by Agarwal personally rather than through agency intermediaries.
    Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 22 July 2026
  • But the league has gone beyond explaining its side to the intermediaries known as the media.
    Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
Noun
  • Unsurprisingly, a moderator for these town halls, American Economic Liberties Project senior advisor Alvaro Bedoya, cheered on the legal challenges.
    Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 13 July 2026
  • In the meantime, the former View moderator is appearing in her one-woman show, Common Knowledge, on Broadway.
    Rance Collins, Entertainment Weekly, 12 July 2026

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“Negotiator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/negotiator. Accessed 24 Jul. 2026.

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