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

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