interlocutor
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“This effort suggests that they no longer trust Rubio to be a dispassionate interlocutor and want to appeal directly to the president to resolve the escalating crisis.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
Now he wanted to ensure that his chief American interlocutor was someone he could easily manipulate.
From Slate • Dec. 22, 2025
No matter how advanced it becomes, or how plausible it is as a counselor or an interlocutor, its nature as a subsidiary creation renders it a tool, not a peer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025
"He is an essential interlocutor in the region," a close associate said.
From Barron's • Oct. 27, 2025
Mobile and flexible, it was never intended to be compressed in the eternal silence of solitude: it is a mouth which should speak much and smile often, and have human affection for its interlocutor.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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