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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

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

Moffett said that, in the old days, television channels didn’t have to worry about irking customers with rising costs, because that relationship was handled by a middleman — the cable companies.

From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026

I’ve worked with people where they had to have that middleman for a little bit until they felt comfortable.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026

I worked as a middleman for Bolo and Daniel for a year.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

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

Moonshot routed that data to Claude, using a network of middlemen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 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

In this way the shoreline groups put themselves in the position of classic middlemen, overseeing both European access to Indian products and Indian access to European products.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann