intermediaries

noun

plural of intermediary
as in mediators
one who works with opposing sides in order to bring about an agreement in the past he's served as an intermediary in several hostage situations

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Recent Examples of intermediaries The risk is the intermediaries — the financiers, the studio. — Jack Dunn, Variety, 27 June 2026 These could be either robotics companies or, at times, other intermediaries. — Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 25 June 2026 On Wall Street, as for an antiquarian bookseller, intermediaries tend to make the most money when the job is most difficult. — Gary Sernovitz, New Yorker, 15 June 2026 Another defendant who pleaded guilty challenges the law through stealth and intermediaries for his company to win lucrative public building contracts. — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 27 June 2026 The company built its own licenses and banking partnerships from the ground up to avoid relying on intermediaries, a decision that looked expensive in the early years and is now looking like a competitive advantage. — Aaron Stanley, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026 With shopping, authors of the report said the digital storefront is being completely rewritten by agentic browsers that act as autonomous intermediaries, which is reshaping how global commerce functions. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 29 June 2026 Subsequent Fortune reporting on the files traced how Epstein spent roughly a decade working to insert himself into Gates’ inner circle—directly and through intermediaries—and kept at it even after Gates stopped communicating with him. — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 30 June 2026 But as the January date approached, Atkin and Jammi’s research showed that intermediaries were still sending money to prominent peddlers of election conspiracies like Dan Bongino and Tucker Carlson. — Literary Hub, 30 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intermediaries
  1. mediators
  2. middlemen
  3. brokers
  4. negotiators
  5. liaisons
  6. intermediates
  7. ambassadors
  8. agents
Noun
  • Some are journalists, mediators, plumbers, custodians, and writers.
    — Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2026
  • Instead, the mediators will convey points from either side to the other, with the goal being to ease tension following another exchange of fire that erupted at the end of last week.
    — July 1, CBS News, 1 July 2026
Definition of mediators
Noun
  • In other instances, Warrick said, there will be ghost carriers or fraudulent pickups of drivers or middlemen posing as legitimate transporters, but who are really smugglers.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 3 July 2026
  • On the other are middlemen who lurk on message apps like Telegram, WeChat and WhatsApp offering access to people inside Amazon who can get things done for a price.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 24 June 2026
Definition of middlemen
Noun
  • By late spring, with markets overcoming Iran war fears and the SpaceX IPO and other offerings creating massive liquidity events, the Manhattan market sprang to life, brokers said.
    — Robert Frank, CNBC, 3 July 2026
  • There are hundreds of data brokers and people-search sites, and each one may have its own opt-out process.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of brokers
Noun
  • This time around in talks with studios, union negotiators will be facing a new but familiar opponent on the other side of the table after longtime studio negotiator Carol Lombardini stepped down.
    — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 20 Aug. 2025
Definition of negotiators
Noun
  • The Kreung people of northeastern Cambodia build huts for their adolescent daughters to use for erotic liaisons and encourage them to have as many of these as possible before choosing a husband.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • As members of the Arapahoe County Advisory Committee, Janet Becker-Wold and Edie Summers now serve as liaisons between county leaders and the community.
    — Ashley Portillo, CBS News, 20 June 2026
Definition of liaisons
Noun
  • According to the researchers, the catalyst weakens excessive bonding between iron sites and hydroxyl intermediates, allowing the reaction to proceed more smoothly and reducing one of the major bottlenecks in zinc-air battery operation.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 13 June 2026
  • More than 90% of China-ASEAN trade is in industrial intermediates rather than finished goods, and intra-regional FDI flows now represent roughly half of the FDI stock within the ASEAN+3 region, according to AMRO.
    — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2026
Definition of intermediates
Noun
  • The pet food brand is looking for one kitten and one puppy to serve as honorary brand ambassadors and help spread the word about healthy eating.
    — Drew Pittock, USA Today, 6 July 2026
  • They’re heavily scheduled as working training vessels and ambassadors of goodwill, and merely getting on their itineraries required planning that began in April 2020.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 30 June 2026
Definition of ambassadors
Noun
  • Before choosing a whitening method, check the care label for guidance on water temperature, safe cleaning agents, and recommended drying methods.
    — Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 1 July 2026
  • When your workforce includes full-time employees, fractional specialists and AI agents, culture becomes about how work gets done, not who does it.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Definition of agents

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