compromiser

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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

The former senator was a centrist and compromiser during more than 40 years in Washington.

From Washington Post • Sep. 15, 2020

Lubbers was a political centrist and a pragmatic compromiser, forming coalition governments with the right and left.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 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

But as a compromiser, as a rider of troubled waters, and a pilot at a time when shipwreck seemed imminent and unavoidable, he proved his consummate ability, and merits the gratitude of his country.

From American Men of Action by Stevenson, Burton Egbert