Thesaurus results for HONEST BROKER

honest broker

noun

as in mediator

one who works with opposing sides in order to bring about an agreement after all the bad blood on both sides, we need to find someone who hasn't been influenced and can act as an honest broker

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Recent Examples of honest broker And if the Republicans are willing to come to the table and be an honest broker, then yeah, because a government shutdown at the end of the day doesn't benefit anybody except President Trump. —

Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Sep. 2025 No matter how much Lukashenko may have wanted to seem like an honest broker, the sum of his messaging to all of Trump’s envoys, and to me, amounted to a lot of hype about the dangers of playing tough with Putin. —

Simon Shuster, Time, 8 Aug. 2025 Their principled positions on the U.S.-Israeli strikes lend credibility to their roles as honest brokers. —

Hasan T. Alhasan, Foreign Affairs, 4 Aug. 2025 Recommended The Monitor's View Hungary as honest broker The chair of the German parliament’s defense committee was blunter. —

Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for honest broker

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Noun

The attack was swiftly condemned by mediator Pakistan and other countries.

— Chantal Da Silva, NBC news, 18 May 2026
Negotiations are being conducted through Pakistani mediators.

— Christopher Cann, USA Today, 18 May 2026