mediate
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She said that "you can't mediate with someone who asks you to go into a meeting with preconditions".
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Pakistan has sought to mediate efforts to end the US-Iran war, while Turkey has played a diplomatic role in negotiations aimed at ending the war in Gaza.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
The Gryffindor and Slytherin maintain a traditional rivalry, the Ravenclaw nerds out about magical history and the Hufflepuff attempts to mediate them all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Others let their bots script their text messages and even mediate their dating lives as a digital Cyrano de Bergerac.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
If anyone spoke up it would be Mama, trying to mediate.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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The hope is to become a "big fish" who mediates between the grunts and those with cash, maybe even entering polite society.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
The Geneva-based body that mediates trade disputes Friday said its Trade Barometer fell to 101.7 in June from 102.3 in January.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
One way to escape this game of chicken is when a third party mediates, offering both sides an off-ramp.
From BBC ● May 1, 2025
As journalist Franklin Foer elaborates in his acclaimed book on Biden’s presidency, The Last Politician, politics for Biden is the “means by which a society mediates its difference of opinion, allowing for peaceful coexistence.”
From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2024
For when the Lord operates He operates not from first things through mediates into outmosts, but from first things through outmosts and thus into mediates.
From Spiritual Life and the Word of God by Emanuel Swedenborg
M and the writer move through highly mediated spaces that amplify certain features and downgrade others, a kind of edited, hyperreal landscape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
During the fourth decade of warming, they observed that stable portions of soil organic matter, once believed to resist warming mediated decomposition, also began to break down.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
We’re seeing the first celebrity wedding that’s mediated almost entirely through misinformation.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
When so much of our public life is mediated through phone screens, dubious algorithms and national outrage, there is something sincere and restorative about a neighborhood potluck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
The Catholic Church of my youth mediated with special grace between the public and private realms of my life, such was the extent of its faith in itself.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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Kuwait recently signed a new defense pact with Pakistan, which has played a mediating role in seeking to halt the U.S.-Iran conflict.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Among the international guests was Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, whose country has been mediating between Iran and the US, and who attended alongside the powerful Pakistani army chief Asim Munir.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
Qatar has played a key role alongside Pakistan in mediating a conclusion to the conflict, with the most recent discussions between Tehran and Washington taking place on June 21 with all four countries in attendance.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
Tehran has discussed its proposal to charge service fees in talks with China and Egypt, Iranian and mediating officials said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Right after the war, the Jews’ Haganah mediating body stepped up the longtime negotiations with the British.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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