conciliator

Example Sentences

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The union applied for the help of a conciliator from Canada’s National Labour Board to help close the gap between the parties.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 1, 2023

As the runaway favorite, he has until now given scant details of his plans, answering doubters instead by waving his résumé — as a conciliator, a onetime fiscal realist, committed to dialogue.

From Washington Post • Oct. 3, 2022

The meetings in Honolulu were aimed not only at discussing North Korea, but at trying to smooth out tensions between Japan and South Korea, with the United States playing conciliator.

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2022

Pacheco, 44, a senator from the mining state of Minas Gerais, is considered a political conciliator who backs economic reforms, fiscal responsibility and improved social welfare for Brazil’s poor.

From Reuters • Oct. 27, 2021

"I merely promised, to pacify her, to ask you if you could not do some little thing that would—" The critic assumed the role of conciliator.

From Hillsboro People by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield