negotiator

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Recent Examples of negotiator For three months, McArn served as both district leader and in her former position as chief human resources officer and lead negotiator. Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 1 May 2026 Grande plays Olivia Jones, an FBI hostage negotiator who is dating a member of the Focker family. Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026 The Directors Guild of America has issued a vote of confidence in chief negotiator Russell Hollander ahead of the union’s upcoming negotiations with studios and streamers. Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 27 Apr. 2026 Iran's top negotiator Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf and Araghchi echoed the message in ‌recent days. Reuters, NBC news, 26 Apr. 2026 Jalili, meanwhile, served as Iran’s top nuclear negotiator from 2007 to 2013 under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and later ran for president three times. Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2026 Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, speaker of parliament, chief negotiator and former commander in chief of the IRGC. Ian Pannell, ABC News, 24 Apr. 2026 Whether this would appeal to Brighton, led by owner Tony Bloom, who is a notoriously tough negotiator, remains to be seen. Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2026 At the center of the adaptation is a fictional anthropologist and backchannel negotiator who works in the world’s most volatile environments. Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 20 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for negotiator
Noun
  • The Vatican has also traditionally acted as a mediator with Cuba, a country Trump has mused about taking over.
    Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 4 May 2026
  • The Islamic Republic’s latest proposal, the details of which have not been made known, was passed to the White House via Pakistani mediators on Thursday evening.
    Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • And so the degree to which that changes, the degree to which gas prices continue to fluctuate, and whether or not the administration can come to more agreement with Iranian officials and the intermediaries there in the Middle East, all of those factors are going to be important to watch.
    Dana Taylor, USA Today, 1 May 2026
  • Markiplier wants to become an aggregator himself, and beyond that, to advocate for a system where any filmmaker could access YouTube distribution without the intermediary.
    Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 30 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The campaign is also calling for experienced independent moderators to run the debate and that it be aired on accessible formats for the entire voting public.
    Tim Dunn, Boston Herald, 2 May 2026
  • As far as campaign promotional regulations, the Academy dictated that screenings with Q&A sessions or panel discussions before nominations may now have up to two moderators instead of one moderator.
    Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 1 May 2026

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“Negotiator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/negotiator. Accessed 7 May. 2026.

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