How to Use power broker in a Sentence

power broker

noun

• 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
• This is an election which is in the hands of the judiciary and of the key power brokers in Kenya.
  — Felix Njini, Bloomberg.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• 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
• Heitner, an attorney and UF fan, is not among the power brokers in sports agency.
  — Edgar Thompson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 28 Oct. 2017
• 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
• But this week Egypt, eager to regain its place as a power broker in the Middle East, will be hosting another round of talks.
  — Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Oct. 2017
• Granted, this is probably a more realistic depiction of what the life of a power broker with criminal ties is actually like.
  — Noel Murray, Vulture, 14 July 2024
• After six weeks of searching, and using a tip from a confidential informant, the men’s bodies were found buried in an earthen dam, near where Mississippi’s power brokers were about to gather for the annual Neshoba County Fair.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024