: arranged or controlled by brokers and especially power brokers
a brokered political convention
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Her paternal grandparents, wealthy plantation owners who relied on Black labor to work the fields, brokered cotton in the Mississippi town where Emmett Till was lynched.
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Mary Ann Gwinn,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Mar. 2022
To win outright—and to avoid a brokered Convention—a candidate will need to claim at least 1,991 delegates during the 2020 primary voting season.
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2 June 2020
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Mary Ann Gwinn,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Mar. 2022
To win outright—and to avoid a brokered Convention—a candidate will need to claim at least 1,991 delegates during the 2020 primary voting season.
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The New Yorker,
2 June 2020
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“Brokered.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brokered. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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