How to Use arbiter in a Sentence

arbiter

noun

• Is this particular painting worth anything, and who is the arbiter of that value?
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2020
• Finally, the distant sky, not Earth, was the ultimate arbiter of where things are.
  — Joshua Sokol, Science | AAAS, 24 Nov. 2020
• But the Supreme Court’s role as arbiter in a series of election-year disputes has kept it in the spotlight.
  — David Sivak, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 8 Sep. 2024
• Americans don’t want the government acting as an arbiter of truth, deciding what speech is fair or not.
  — Rick White, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2020
• The old man in the piazza is our arbiter, and his thumbs have become a matter of national interest.
  — Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2020
• Officers can appeal sanctions through multiple reviews, and most departments allow appeals to be heard by an arbiter selected in part by the police union.
  — Shane Bauer, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2020
• This system of administrative tribunals is the ultimate arbiter for the hundreds of thousands of people put into removal proceedings each year.
  — Felipe De La Hoz, The New Republic, 25 Dec. 2020
• The next prosecutor in control of a rapper’s freedom can now cite Morgan’s ruling, setting the stage for the justice system to become an arbiter of what’s acceptable in rap lyrics.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 9 July 2024
• And by the Supreme Court, of course, which tends to be the final arbiter of it all.
  — Adam J. White, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
• The researchers don’t claim that magnetism is the arbiter of the fate of all worlds.
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 June 2021
• And the ultimate arbiter of what Disney can and can’t be is the fan, the viewer, the guest.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 10 Sep. 2022
• The judge is the arbiter between the government and the defendant.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 22 Mar. 2022
• Who will be the arbiter of which copies are closest to the original?
  — Rick Prelinger, Wired, 20 Apr. 2021
• The world defers on this to the African Union, the continental arbiter.
  — The Economist, 8 May 2021
• Also, when did Tori become the arbiter of The Challenge?
  — Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 14 Jan. 2021
• In many ways, credit scores have become the arbiter of who gets to live the good life in America.
  — Mya Frazier, New York Times, 7 June 2023
• But what’s very clear is that coaches aren’t equipped to be the sole arbiters of those decisions.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
• South Africa's forces therefore seem unlikely to be the arbiter of lasting peace in the DRC.
  — Harriet Marsden, The Week Uk, theweek, 20 Feb. 2024
• Two years later, the arbiter sided with the city and actually raised the rent by $10 million over the life of the lease.
  — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Sep. 2021
• Initially this is in state courts, but the U.S. Supreme Court is the ultimate arbiter.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 18 Jan. 2024
• In the case of a stalemate, courts may ultimately have to serve as the final arbiter.
  — NBC News, 21 Mar. 2021
• He was also known as an arbiter of taste and a branding guru.
  — Vogue, 14 Dec. 2021
• That’s when Monáe swept in, already in character as Javier’s longtime friend, arbiter of his will and host of the evening.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Dec. 2022
• If not the arbiter of heartbreak, the 23-year-old is certainly heartbreak’s muse.
  — Zoe Haylock, Vulture, 25 June 2021
• In Putin's Russia, the main arbiter is the state, controlled by the former Cold War spies and technocrats in his entourage.
  — Fox News, 7 June 2024
• So when peer review is extolled as the arbiter of truth, Errington balks.
  — Andrea Morris, Forbes, 5 May 2022
• Richards and Sheen started the new year by moving their divorce into the hands of a private arbiter.
  — Jacqueline Weiss, PEOPLE.com, 15 July 2022
• The Supreme Leader is the final arbiter on most decisions in Iran.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 4 July 2024
• The statements adopt an imperative from the future, which, it’s said, will be the best arbiter.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
• She has been known as the grande dame and social arbiter of the show, living in a Potomac-area mansion with her husband.
  — Olivia Diaz, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024