How to Use arbiter in a Sentence

arbiter

noun

• And by the Supreme Court, of course, which tends to be the final arbiter of it all.
  — Adam J. White, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
• And the ultimate arbiter of what Disney can and can’t be is the fan, the viewer, the guest.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 10 Sep. 2022
• The judge is the arbiter between the government and the defendant.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 22 Mar. 2022
• In many ways, credit scores have become the arbiter of who gets to live the good life in America.
  — Mya Frazier, New York Times, 7 June 2023
• But what’s very clear is that coaches aren’t equipped to be the sole arbiters of those decisions.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
• Initially this is in state courts, but the U.S. Supreme Court is the ultimate arbiter.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 18 Jan. 2024
• That’s when Monáe swept in, already in character as Javier’s longtime friend, arbiter of his will and host of the evening.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Dec. 2022
• So when peer review is extolled as the arbiter of truth, Errington balks.
  — Andrea Morris, Forbes, 5 May 2022
• Richards and Sheen started the new year by moving their divorce into the hands of a private arbiter.
  — Jacqueline Weiss, PEOPLE.com, 15 July 2022
• The image of China as a peacemaker and arbiter gives Xi a further boost.
  — Meaghan Tobin, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
• Fast forward to the 1950s and beyond, and the world was greeted by a pivotal icon, and arbiter of the naked dress: Marilyn Monroe.
  — Kristen Bateman, Vogue, 8 Apr. 2022
• Not many people know this, but Starbucks is now the official arbiter of the seasons.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
• Model and artist Karen Elson posed with Alexa Chung, the digital arbiter of taste.
  — Ian Malone, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2023
• They will be tried not before a jury of 12 of their peers, but before a judge who will be the sole arbiter of their fate, court records indicate.
  — Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 24 May 2022
• And what the arbiter says goes—there is no appeal if the decision is unjust or the proceedings unfair.
  — Cheri Bustos, ELLE, 12 Aug. 2022
• Even Diana Vreeland, that legendary arbiter of taste, is no help here.
  — Ellie Pithers, Vogue, 24 Nov. 2022
• Black culture will always be an arbiter of pop culture and what young people love.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
• The process was not just validating to her as a Latina but also as the arbiter of her own creative destiny.
  — Suzy Exposito, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• The Oscars are far from the ultimate arbiter of excellence.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Mar. 2022
• When a potential conflict arises, the sole arbiter of whether a justice should step away from a case is the justice him or herself.
  — Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski, Anchorage Daily News, 22 June 2023
• Watson at first was pawed with a six-game suspension by an arbiter, but the NFL exercised its right to appeal.
  — Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2022
• For me, the case came down to this: Could anyone look at a judge or arbiter with a straight face and say that Ollie would have been fired for these infractions if UConn were winning in 2018?
  — Dom Amore, courant.com, 22 Jan. 2022
• With an array of career ambitions (and cute outfits to match!), the beach blonde has managed to remain an arbiter of taste since her birth in 1959.
  — Kelsey Mulvey, House Beautiful, 19 July 2023
• There, Trump is the arbiter of truth, the oracle of the Right, the very definition of correctitude — and nobody else is allowed a say in the matter.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 22 Jan. 2024
• There are situations where that decision rests with the courts, but more often, there’s no single arbiter who makes the call.
  — Kristen Bellstrom, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2022
• The Los Angeles team made the announcement on Jan. 6, about four weeks after the arbiter's Dec. 12 decision.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2023
• The agency is employing progressives to study how to make the tax collector the first and last arbiter of how much Americans owe.
  — The Editorial Board, wsj.com, 26 Apr. 2023
• While perhaps useful as a screening tool, BMI alone is not a good arbiter of health, said Stanford and many other experts.
  — Julie Appleby, NBC News, 8 Oct. 2022
• The punishment was trimmed to 194 games by an arbiter, making Bauer eligible to play in the majors this season.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2023
• Emily Post, the 20th century’s arbiter of etiquette, added to its pedigree.
  — Emilia Petrarca, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024