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mediate

[mee-dee-ayt, mee-dee-it] / ˈmi diˌeɪt, ˈmi di ɪt /


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Two years to the day of my arrest, I was in Qatar, talking to officials involved in helping mediate my release while dining on stuffed pigeons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

She said that "you can't mediate with someone who asks you to go into a meeting with preconditions".

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

The Gryffindor and Slytherin maintain a traditional rivalry, the Ravenclaw nerds out about magical history and the Hufflepuff attempts to mediate them all.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

That result provided additional evidence that the receptor helps mediate at least some of coffee's biological effects.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026

We might need to have Styx come back and mediate.

From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon

The hope is to become a "big fish" who mediates between the grunts and those with cash, maybe even entering polite society.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

The Geneva-based body that mediates trade disputes Friday said its Trade Barometer fell to 101.7 in June from 102.3 in January.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

One way to escape this game of chicken is when a third party mediates, offering both sides an off-ramp.

From BBC ● May 1, 2025

Another important concept that emerges is that of a “resource bargain,” which mediates how the different parts relate to each other.

From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2025

The seventeenth century worshipped the past; the eighteenth despised it: the nineteenth mediates, by means of criticism.

From History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion by Adam Storey Farrar

In the past, the US mediated disputes between the two countries.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

An American official described this week’s mediated discussions as “positive and constructive,” while Iranian officials said Saturday they were awaiting an official U.S. response.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

M and the writer move through highly mediated spaces that amplify certain features and downgrade others, a kind of edited, hyperreal landscape.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

During the fourth decade of warming, they observed that stable portions of soil organic matter, once believed to resist warming mediated decomposition, also began to break down.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026

Our eating habits are mediated by a mind-boggling collection of such items, from spoons and glasses to genetic engineering labs and gigantic ocean-going ships.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Kuwait recently signed a new defense pact with Pakistan, which has played a mediating role in seeking to halt the U.S.-Iran conflict.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Qatar has played a key role alongside Pakistan in mediating a conclusion to the conflict, with the most recent discussions between Tehran and Washington taking place on June 21 with all four countries in attendance.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

Tehran has discussed its proposal to charge service fees in talks with China and Egypt, Iranian and mediating officials said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

Both sides also agreed to the creation of a "de-confliction cell" between the US, Iran and Lebanon, facilitated by the mediating countries, to end military operations in Lebanon, their statement said.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

Hence there must be other mediating proximate mechanisms as well.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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