How to Use moderator in a Sentence

moderator

noun
  • She acts as the moderator in our office meetings.
  • The moderator allowed audience members to ask the governor questions.
  • Co-host Sara Haines stepped in as moderator of the show in her place.
    Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2023
  • End of carousel The subject did come up, once the moderators from CNN broached it.
    Philip Bump, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
  • Even the golden boy of slow cooking can fall foul of the moderator’s rules.
    Olivia Potts, Longreads, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The state laws are not about protecting speech, the moderators wrote.
    Carrie Johnson, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Begin by electing a moderator (who gets to pick the first present) to ask the questions.
    Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 28 Nov. 2022
  • In the process, 260 Sama moderators were expected to lose their jobs.
    Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 21 July 2023
  • Like all of us, The View moderator Whoopi Goldberg is tired — very, very tired — of daylight saving time.
    Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The suitors are also in discussions with the striking moderators, who are the core of the program.
    Helen Branswell, STAT, 28 Aug. 2023
  • That is how policies are built, that is how tens of thousands of moderators are doing their jobs.
    Dexter Thomas, WIRED, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Co-moderator Elex Michaelson of Fox 11 asked what was the point of Villanueva’s roll call.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Abdo, who plays the very tricky role of moderator on a show that prides itself on spontaneity, agrees.
    Caroline Framke, Variety, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Since leaving the moderator's seat here at Face the Nation, Bob has been fine-tuning his artistic skills.
    CBS News, 7 Apr. 2024
  • The candidates were asked by a moderator to name something Mr. Trump and Mrs. Pelosi deserved to be rebuked for.
    Joshua Jamerson, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2022
  • In addition to her role as moderator on The View, Goldberg has kept up a busy acting slate in recent years.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Putney turned 82 on Friday, with Sunday as his last day at the moderator’s desk.
    Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Reddit user avayr44, a moderator for /r/Kanye, said there are no plans to close the subreddit.
    Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2022
  • John Bruno, the only candidate running for the longer term, was a selectman for 15 years and the town moderator for nearly a decade.
    Daniel Kool, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The debate moderators didn’t bring up the Middletown steel plant.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
  • DeSantis was notably quiet and had to be asked twice by the moderators for his answer.
    Steve Peoples and Nicholas Riccardi, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2023
  • When the moderator asked Bastian about the rewards program changes, the audience at the Atlanta Rotary Club booed.
    Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Content moderators took them down, bringing the issue to the attention of the public.
    Anna Gordon, TIME, 1 May 2024
  • The individual who made the post was banned from the page, moderator Brock Organ wrote on Thursday, May 30.
    Brian Brant, Peoplemag, 7 June 2024
  • The moment was widely missed due to the moderators talking over the pair while the exchange was happening, trying to regain control of the debate.
    Hannah Demissie, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2023
  • When a moderator asked her to give a letter grade for the law’s implementation so far, Tran said it’s been between a C-plus and a B-minus.
    Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Musk has a strong pro-free-speech stance and—thanks to cost-cutting—not a lot of moderators, so X is more relaxed about disinformation than most of its peers.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Musk and the moderator, a Musk acolyte named David Sacks, kept trying to assert that the technical screw-ups amounted to a triumph brought about by a large audience.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024
  • This grief group had no moderator and no rules other than those dictated by the Little League of America — and the human heart.
    Teresa Strasser, Good Housekeeping, 9 Aug. 2023
  • If history is any guide, Lake will probably attack the moderators, as well.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 7 Oct. 2024

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