How to Use power broker in a Sentence

power broker

noun
  • How is this acceptable with all of the power brokers in this city?
    — Emily Alpert Reyes, latimes.com, 4 Feb. 2018
  • The power brokers feel that the goalposts are being moved on them.
    — Danielle Tcholakian, Longreads, 7 Apr. 2018
  • Browne aligned himself with many of Broward’s power brokers at the time.
    — Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2026
  • This time, there is pressure from Wall Street power brokers as well.
    — Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2019
  • In high school, few would have pegged Campbell as a legal power broker in the making.
    — Abe Streep, Outside Online, 1 May 2018
  • That is where Gantz could emerge as a power broker — and even an unlikely winner.
    — Josef Federman, ajc, 27 Oct. 2022
  • But Baker said she was resisted by the school's power brokers from her first day on the job.
    — Sally Jenkins, chicagotribune.com, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Daemon has been betrayed by Mysaria, who’s become a power broker in her own right.
    — Sean T. Collins, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Kishimori has proven a quick study finding who the power brokers are here and has been working closely with them.
    — Carol Cain, Freep.com, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Proxy advisory firms did not set out to become power brokers.
    — Jane Sadowsky, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2026
  • The three characters crash into each other, and the city’s power brokers.
    — Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 11 June 2026
  • The 66-year-old Dallas power broker has made winning look easy.
    — Dallas News, 28 July 2019
  • This is an election which is in the hands of the judiciary and of the key power brokers in Kenya.
    — Felix Njini, Bloomberg.com, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Culinary skills aside, he’s proven a quick study finding who the power brokers are here and has been working closely with them.
    — Carol Cain, Freep.com, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Brockman has become one of the biggest power brokers of the AI era.
    — Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025
  • And with the backing of local power brokers, enforcement becomes a game of whack-a-mole.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2025
  • But his brash rhetoric and abrasive tactics have alienated many of the party's power brokers.
    — Tony Cook, Indianapolis Star, 4 May 2018
  • But experts say that Venezuela’s power brokers have long had a habit of closing ranks behind their leaders.
    — Isabel Debre, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2026
  • But experts say that Venezuela’s power brokers have long had a habit of closing ranks behind their leaders.
    — Isabel Debre, Chicago Tribune, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Harvey wasn’t yet a top-line power broker, giving Madonna the upper hand.
    — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 6 May 2021
  • The Raiders’ three new power brokers own 10 Super Bowl rings.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Apr. 2025
  • That means many judges owe their positions far more to political power brokers than anyone else.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2026
  • Heitner, an attorney and UF fan, is not among the power brokers in sports agency.
    — Edgar Thompson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 28 Oct. 2017
  • California’s new Anglo power brokers wrangled over who would have the right to vote.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • But Oregon and Washington appear to be the true power brokers here.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 July 2023
  • Yet the gap between the haves and the have-nots remains glaring, and there seems to be little incentive from the sport’s power brokers to change that.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 12 June 2019
  • But Merrill’s eat-what-you-kill power brokers chafed at the merger with the Southern consumer bank.
    — Liz Hoffman, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2018
  • Now, for the first time, the agent, the mogul, the iconic power broker speaks for himself, about himself, and about the game of life, often at the top of his lungs.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The globe-trotting power broker could be a key source of information for the Mueller probe for a number of reasons.
    — Zeeshan Aleem, Vox, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Kneel in protest of the fact that our greatest athletes are still being used, even today, as mere servicers of power brokers seeking to cash in on their skin.
    — Sally Jenkins, courant.com, 13 Aug. 2019

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