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This week, Quentin Fottrell — The Moneyist — attempted to mediate a dispute between a married couple, over how to allocate their cash: Should they pay down debt, or invest?

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

It called for the governor’s Office of Tribal Affairs to mediate any disputes between tribes and state water agencies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The gut microbiota may also help mediate these effects.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi called at the UN Saturday for "self-restraint" from all sides in the Middle East war, while stressing that Muscat was ready to mediate.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

In a tribe, where many people are still close relatives and everyone at least knows everybody else by name, mutual relatives and mutual friends mediate the quarrel.

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

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

As journalist Franklin Foer elaborates in his acclaimed book on Biden’s presidency, The Last Politician, politics for Biden is the “means by which a society mediates its difference of opinion, allowing for peaceful coexistence.”

From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2024

The mediatorial view of the Bible, or the view which mediates between the others.

From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke

“There’s a great energy that comes from being in a room with people. I think it’s a different energy than anything else, particularly true and truer every day in the increasingly screen-based and mediated world.”

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026

The United Arab Emirates mediated the exchange, it added.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 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

In his excellent 2022 collection, “Reward System,” Jem Calder explored the trials of digitally mediated romance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

There was a lodge director, a kindly man who had a room within the building, and who mediated the infrequent disputes among the boys.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

Officials in mediating countries said Iran’s rejection incensed them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Trump told the US news outlet Axios that mediating countries had asked him to hold fire to give diplomacy a chance, adding: "We are in very deep talks with Iran."

From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 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

By my second year, it was natural for me to spend a typical day mediating between Frederick Douglass’s integration into America and Martin Delany’s escape into nationalism.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates