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"We want a fair investigation," she said, adding that anyone responsible - "whether a bureaucrat, employee, middleman or a big politician" - would face action.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

Regretting using a middleman for a courier service, however opportunistic you believe the company to be, is not — on the face of it — a good enough reason to cancel the charge.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026

The companies also coordinated off-exchange egg trades at premium prices, which were submitted to the middleman that tallies the benchmark price.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

Before SpaceX went public, Kahlon made a fortune by acting as a middleman for investors hoping to add the rocket company to their portfolio.

From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2026

Working as a kind of headhunter, John became the middleman, finding the right skilled, trustworthy crews to do the jobs.

From "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba

That is partly because pharmacy-benefit managers, the middlemen that decide which drugs people are steered to through their insurance plans, often place brand-name drugs over cheaper biosimilars, AAM said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

A commercial flight operated by Russia’s largest airline, Aeroflot, lands each morning at the airport in Malé, where teams of local middlemen working with Russia-linked logistics companies help get the U.S.,

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

The Ga people became middlemen who traded with Europeans.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

Investigators say that scarcity has fuelled increasingly sophisticated paper-leak rackets, linking teachers, middlemen and exam-centre staff.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

That, after all, was the dealers’ stated function: middlemen.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis