How to Use power broker in a Sentence

power broker

noun
Definition of power brokernext
  • Those are the clubs that have stolen the Cubs’ crown since that World Series win and, in the process, now sit atop the game as its power brokers.
    — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Are the Wildcats poised to become the Big 12’s new power broker, with the Sooners and Longhorns gone?
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2024
  • The power brokers feel that the goalposts are being moved on them.
    — Danielle Tcholakian, Longreads, 7 Apr. 2018
  • How is this acceptable with all of the power brokers in this city?
    — Emily Alpert Reyes, latimes.com, 4 Feb. 2018
  • Today, an hour-by-hour glimpse into the working world of Tori Atwell, 59, a power broker in the San Jose area.
    — Alyssa Shelasky, Curbed, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The best of those N.B.A. players are also power brokers behind the scenes.
    — John Branch, New York Times, 22 June 2018
  • This time, there is pressure from Wall Street power brokers as well.
    — Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2019
  • But Baker said she was resisted by the school's power brokers from her first day on the job.
    — Sally Jenkins, chicagotribune.com, 2 Mar. 2018
  • In high school, few would have pegged Campbell as a legal power broker in the making.
    — Abe Streep, Outside Online, 1 May 2018
  • Yet the gap between the haves and the have-nots remains glaring, and there seems to be little incentive from the sport’s power brokers to change that.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 12 June 2019
  • At the same time, Mr. Solomon strayed beyond the traditional mold of a Wall Street power broker.
    — Kate Kelly, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2018
  • But his role as a power broker is on the line when the primary season heats up in May, in North Carolina and across the map.
    — Byrick Klein,averi Harper, ABC News, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The 66-year-old Dallas power broker has made winning look easy.
    — Dallas News, 28 July 2019
  • But Merrill’s eat-what-you-kill power brokers chafed at the merger with the Southern consumer bank.
    — Liz Hoffman, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2018
  • That is where Gantz could emerge as a power broker — and even an unlikely winner.
    — Josef Federman, ajc, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Domingo, now 79, has been regarded as one of the greatest opera singers of all time and a key power broker in the industry.
    — Jocelyn Gecker, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2020
  • Yet despite the claims that the city’s power brokers all sneered at him, Mr. Trump was humored, indulged and even accepted by some of them.
    — Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 25 May 2024
  • The globe-trotting power broker could be a key source of information for the Mueller probe for a number of reasons.
    — Zeeshan Aleem, Vox, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Daemon has been betrayed by Mysaria, who’s become a power broker in her own right.
    — Sean T. Collins, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2022
  • The collective portrait project The Family, which presents U.S. power brokers in the most turbulent stretch of the mid-1970s.
    — Vogue, 23 Jan. 2024
  • But Oregon and Washington appear to be the true power brokers here.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 July 2023
  • Talks between Turkey and Russia, the main power brokers in Syria, have so far failed to defuse tensions.
    — Andrew Wilks, Fox News, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Arum promotes Fury, and Wilder is managed by the boxing power broker Al Haymon.
    — Morgan Campbell, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2020
  • The president and a power broker heed the utterings of a simple gardener who likes to watch TV.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
  • For the party girl, a mini-suit worn by Grace Elizabeth; for the power broker, sleek white shirting and black trousers as modeled by Ruth Bell.
    — Amanda Brooks, Vogue, 15 Mar. 2019
  • Kneel in protest of the fact that our greatest athletes are still being used, even today, as mere servicers of power brokers seeking to cash in on their skin.
    — Sally Jenkins, courant.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • In directing its attention on the network, the Big 12 is taking aim at the largest power broker in college sports.
    — Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY, 28 July 2021
  • In the past, the Society had been a center of political might, a place for power brokers to discuss the future of cities and even nations.
    — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 12 June 2024
  • Wall Street power brokers started to grumble about the costs of complying with the dizzying new instructions.
    — Federica Cocco, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
  • But sentiment has changed from the sport's power brokers over the past decade, with more emphasis on expanding cricket beyond its traditional footprint.
    — Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024

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