negotiator

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Recent Examples of negotiator The Directors Guild of America has issued a vote of confidence in chief negotiator Russell Hollander ahead of the union’s upcoming negotiations with studios and streamers. Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 27 Apr. 2026 Iran's top negotiator Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf and Araghchi echoed the message in ‌recent days. Reuters, NBC news, 26 Apr. 2026 Jalili, meanwhile, served as Iran’s top nuclear negotiator from 2007 to 2013 under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and later ran for president three times. Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2026 Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, speaker of parliament, chief negotiator and former commander in chief of the IRGC. Ian Pannell, ABC News, 24 Apr. 2026 Whether this would appeal to Brighton, led by owner Tony Bloom, who is a notoriously tough negotiator, remains to be seen. Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2026 But for America’s lead negotiator, the stakes are also personal. Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026 At the center of the adaptation is a fictional anthropologist and backchannel negotiator who works in the world’s most volatile environments. Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 20 Apr. 2026 Gaurav Srivastava is a commodities investor and negotiator with decades of experience in the global oil marketplace. Gaurav Srivastava, The Washington Examiner, 19 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for negotiator
Noun
  • Iran’s foreign minister instead made two separate visits to Islamabad on the weekend, with Axios reporting that a new proposal was made to the US and conveyed through Pakistani mediators.
    Dan Strumpf, Bloomberg, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi made the remarks in Saint Petersburg, where he is expected to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, having sandwiched a trip to Oman in between visits to main mediator Pakistan over the past few days.
    April 27, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • And so the degree to which that changes, the degree to which gas prices continue to fluctuate, and whether or not the administration can come to more agreement with Iranian officials and the intermediaries there in the Middle East, all of those factors are going to be important to watch.
    Dana Taylor, USA Today, 1 May 2026
  • Markiplier wants to become an aggregator himself, and beyond that, to advocate for a system where any filmmaker could access YouTube distribution without the intermediary.
    Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 30 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The topics posed by the debate moderators touched on only a couple of those issues, and then too briefly to be significant.
    Dan Walters, Oc Register, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Alongside Variety moderator Marc Malkin, each panelist opened up about their journey to becoming an entrepreneur.
    Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 23 Apr. 2026

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“Negotiator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/negotiator. Accessed 2 May. 2026.

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