troubleshooter
noun
trou·ble·shoot·er
ˈtrə-bəl-ˌshü-tər 
1
: a skilled worker employed to locate trouble and make repairs in machinery and technical equipment
2
: an expert in resolving diplomatic or political disputes : a mediator of disputes that are at an impasse
3
: a person skilled at solving or anticipating problems or difficulties
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Eversource has crews both from Connecticut and responding from surrounding states working around the clock, including 100 troubleshooters, over 300 additional line crews and another 100 on the way later Thursday, Sullivan said.
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Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 27 June 2024
Sarkissian admires Botswana for its economic prudence and efficient governance, Singapore for aggressively becoming an economic force and diplomatic troubleshooter, and Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, the founder of the UAE, for wrangling the different emirates into a single entity.
—Shivshankar Menon, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
James Dobbins, a US diplomatic troubleshooter whose assignments included reopening the embassy in Kabul after the 2001 invasion and then returning more than a decade later as a special envoy during a grinding war and fading hopes of stabilizing Afghanistan, died July 3 at a hospital in Washington.
—Brian Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
Carroll was playing for the Class AA team in Amarillo, Texas, when the scout Jeff Gardner, an organizational troubleshooter, visited to work on bunts.
—Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 28 June 2023
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Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 27 June 2024
Sarkissian admires Botswana for its economic prudence and efficient governance, Singapore for aggressively becoming an economic force and diplomatic troubleshooter, and Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, the founder of the UAE, for wrangling the different emirates into a single entity.
—Shivshankar Menon, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
James Dobbins, a US diplomatic troubleshooter whose assignments included reopening the embassy in Kabul after the 2001 invasion and then returning more than a decade later as a special envoy during a grinding war and fading hopes of stabilizing Afghanistan, died July 3 at a hospital in Washington.
—Brian Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
Carroll was playing for the Class AA team in Amarillo, Texas, when the scout Jeff Gardner, an organizational troubleshooter, visited to work on bunts.
—Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 28 June 2023
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troubleshooter
noun
trou·ble·shoot·er
-ˌshüt-ər
: a person who troubleshoots
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