interlocutor

In a combative setting, Vance can dismantle an argument, redirect a question and put his interlocutor on the defensive.

From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026

Langbein’s Monica — having finally transcended her past and ascended to spiritual omniscience — becomes Jean’s interlocutor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

What kind of prime minister will he be at home, or as an interlocutor for Hungary's allies abroad?

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026

Plausible, but it requires a coherent Iranian interlocutor capable of delivering a durable agreement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026

Mobile and flexible, it was never intended to be compressed in the eternal silence of solitude: it is a mouth which should speak much and smile often, and have human affection for its interlocutor.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Skilled interlocutors, like Graham, who had the ear of both Trump and Netanyahu were able to help smooth over such differences in the past, analysts said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

Rubio, born of Cuban parents in Florida, was asked at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing about the possibility of finding interlocutors within Cuba's communist regime.

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

What Homan lacks in eloquence—he frequently slurs his words and can be hard to understand—he makes up for with a savant’s command of names and numbers and a willingness to shout down interlocutors.

From Slate ● Jan. 20, 2025

His European interlocutors nodded but without much evident enthusiasm.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2024

That’s how we pick up accents— sometimes to the extent that our interlocutors think they’re being mocked—and how we lose them.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith