Example Sentences

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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

Now, Salk researchers have begun to construct that map by discovering a brain circuit that mediates panic disorder.

From Science Daily • Jan. 4, 2024

This doorway into the subject seems to me the best one for a science of religions, for it mediates between a number of different points of view.

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William