How to Use ombudsperson in a Sentence

ombudsperson

noun
  • There might be a way to discharge these debts, the ombudsperson mused.
    — Eleni Schirmer, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2023
  • There's no state regulatory agency that could play referee as an ombudsperson does for those living in nursing homes.
    — Sylvia Goodman, The Courier-Journal, 13 Aug. 2021
  • For example, early in the show there is the election of an ombudsperson — an audience member selected by the group to assist with vote counts.
    — Elizabeth Marie Himchak, Pomerado News, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Latter-day Saint law professor suggests an ombudsperson — or office — to field members’ concerns.
    — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Dec. 2022
  • However, the ombudsperson believed that, even without Betty Ann getting a doctor’s note, there were still grounds for discharge.
    — Eleni Schirmer, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The bill also creates an ombudsperson to monitor the state Department of Correction.
    — Daniela Altimari, courant.com, 7 June 2021
  • The bill also would have created an ombudsperson to monitor the state Department of Correction.
    — Daniela Altimari, courant.com, 30 June 2021
  • While there is the role of the ombudsperson or public editor for singular publications, a watchdog blogger can look for greater trends and issues across the journalism spectrum.
    — Jeremy Saks, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
  • As currently described, that official would just be an ombudsperson, without independent enforcement power, but there is potential there too.
    — Chris Sagers, Slate Magazine, 27 July 2017
  • Sylwia Spurek, the former deputy ombudsperson for human rights, who worked on the constitutional tribunal case in her first weeks on the job, told me that the verdict, while disappointing, was legally sound.
    — Anna Louie Sussman, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Many universities have an office to help students negotiate academic misconduct, sometimes called an ombudsperson or student affairs office.
    — Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
  • However, only a full analysis of these consumer complaints and ombudsperson documents will allow the public to fully answer questions posed in the NPRM.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 22 Aug. 2017
  • An organizational ombudsperson or anonymous feedback mechanism gives employees a path to surface issues internally.
    — Darrin Lipscomb, Forbes.com, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Similarly, negotiators must agree to the appointment of a new prosecutor general, comptroller general, and ombudsperson.
    — Francisco Rodríguez, Foreign Affairs, 17 Nov. 2025
  • The advisory committee would meet at least quarterly to inform and advise the ombudsperson, who would work in the state’s Office of Governmental Accountability.
    — Jaden Edison, Hartford Courant, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Other states, like New Jersey and Washington, already have a corrections ombudsperson, an independent office that can rule on disputes within the department of corrections.
    — Shannon Heffernan, ProPublica, 14 June 2022
  • The head of the city’s ombudsperson’s office for equality and anti-discrimination, Doris Liebscher, praised the decision by Berlin’s public pools operator to apply the rules equally.
    — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Yes, and some organizations establish ombudspersons within the organization.
    — The New York Times Magazine, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2017
  • The publisher of the New York Times announced in a staff memo Wednesday that the position of public editor — an ombudsperson of sorts, meant to be an advocate for the paper’s readers — is being eliminated.
    — Danielle Tcholakian, Longreads, 31 May 2017
  • The network also recently hired an ombudsperson—someone with no experience supervising a newsroom and a background leading the right-wing Hudson Institute think tank—to assess complaints of biased programming.
    — Time, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Lawmakers from the opposition Democratic Party lit black flares, threw water at the speaker and occupied seats reserved for government ministers in an attempt to disrupt the session as the country’s new ombudsperson was preparing to take the oath.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The Social Security Administration did not immediately return a request for comment Tuesday on the ombudspersons' letter.
    — NBC News, 3 Mar. 2020
  • The two groups also agreed to terms on the formation of the Correction Advisory Committee, a board of Connecticut residents with diverse expertise in the state’s criminal legal system, tasked with helping appoint a new ombudsperson.
    — Jaden Edison, Hartford Courant, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Larry Fluharty, the Office of the California Foster Care ombudsperson and an expert in the Foster Youth Bill of Rights, said that while youth have rights of movement, their safety is also important.
    — Theresa Clift july 2, Sacbee.com, 2 July 2026
  • The Correction Advisory Committee, the 11-member group responsible for selecting candidates for the correctional ombudsperson, arrived at its decision late Thursday night.
    — Jaden Edison, Hartford Courant, 13 Jan. 2024

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