compromiser

Example Sentences

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He was respected as a practical compromiser who worked with both sides to cut good deals for the country.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2021

“Because Rand is a compromiser, and Ron and ‘compromise’ don’t belong in the same sentence.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2015

As Jeffrey Toobin has explained, in comparing Kennedy to O’Connor: O’Connor was a gradualist, a compromiser, a politician who liked to make each side feel that it won something.

From Slate • Jun. 13, 2012

Incapable of playing the role of peacetime compromiser, his Coriolanus comes across as a warrior who simply can't function without a war.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 2, 2012

But as a compromiser, as a rider of troubled waters, and a pilot at a time when shipwreck seemed imminent and unavoidable, he proved his consummate ability, and merits the gratitude of his country.

From American Men of Action by Stevenson, Burton Egbert