compromiser
Example Sentences
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He was respected as a practical compromiser who worked with both sides to cut good deals for the country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2021
He was a compromiser with a hair-trigger temper.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2018
As Jeffrey Toobin has explained, in comparing Kennedy to O’Connor: O’Connor was a gradualist, a compromiser, a politician who liked to make each side feel that it won something.
From Slate ● Jun. 13, 2012
Incapable of playing the role of peacetime compromiser, his Coriolanus comes across as a warrior who simply can't function without a war.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2012
Calhoun and Webster were, in temperament and belief, as far apart as the poles; Clay stood between them, "the great compromiser."
From American Men of Action by Stevenson, Burton Egbert