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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

I appreciate the Qataris and the Pakistanis trying to help mediate, but it is an altogether different thing.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

The investor team found the stubbornly analog machines appealing: At a time when people mediate so many experiences through glowing screens, Tower Optical’s viewers offered something increasingly rare: stillness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

He has since clarified that the US remains ready to mediate "if that opportunity presents itself".

From BBC ● May 26, 2026

In a tribe, where many people are still close relatives and everyone at least knows everybody else by name, mutual relatives and mutual friends mediate the quarrel.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

In modern caste the Brahmin is the minister of religion; he alone mediates between God and man, makes sacrifices, and teaches the sacred Veda.

From Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East by Oliver Optic

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

In his excellent 2022 collection, “Reward System,” Jem Calder explored the trials of digitally mediated romance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

We’re seeing the first celebrity wedding that’s mediated almost entirely through misinformation.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026

He mediated between demigods, listened to all sides of an argument, found compromises.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

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

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who has also been mediating the conflict, held a call with Qatar's emir on Friday to discuss the recent escalation, Sharif's office said in a statement.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 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

Announcing the breakthrough on Sunday, Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, whose nation had been mediating, said it included "the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon".

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026

Hence there must be other mediating proximate mechanisms as well.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond