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Recent Examples of troubleshooter
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.
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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
Those projectionists, though, were highly skilled engineers and troubleshooters.
—Lane Brown, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2023
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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
Those projectionists, though, were highly skilled engineers and troubleshooters.
—Lane Brown, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for troubleshooter
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An Ohio cellphone repairman has pleaded guilty to secretly downloading nude photos off customers’ phones, officials said.—
Lauren Liebhaber,
Kansas City Star,
21 Feb. 2025
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In this post-apocalyptic romance, Cruise plays security repairman Jack Harper who's been left on Earth in 2077 as a custodian following a catastrophic alien invasion.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
14 Feb. 2025
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Though Trump championed and took credit for the ceasefire, his messaging since taking office has hardly been that of a peacemaker.—
Mick Krever,
CNN,
25 Feb. 2025
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Russia, on the other hand, has gotten the Trump administration’s attention — both with the prospect of business deals and with the prospect of Mr. Trump being seen as a peacemaker by ending the war in Ukraine.—
Anton Troianovski,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2025
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Image Their redeployment was agreed to in a deal signed 12 years ago, the result of negotiations and renegotiations going back to 1995, when three U.S. servicemen raped an Okinawan schoolgirl.—
Martin Fackler,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2025
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Tracing Josiah’s trajectory from lumberjack to shipyard riveter to ambitious serviceman, Wang offers a protagonist of unflappable morality and decency.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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Major cankers call for a doctor visit, as they’re linked to chronic underlying diseases in many cases.—
Matt Fuchs,
TIME,
26 Feb. 2025
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During the lockdown period of COVID, while suffering from chronic pain from rheumatoid arthritis, O’Neal had been prescribed morphine by a doctor who either didn’t know or didn’t care about her addictions.—
Kate Aurthur,
Variety,
26 Feb. 2025
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An eye on Gaza Longer term, Saudi Arabia may aim to use its role as a mediator in the meeting between Russia and the US to capitalize on a pressing regional matter – Trump’s controversial suggestion that the US take ownership of Gaza and permanently relocate its residents.—
Mostafa Salem,
CNN,
17 Feb. 2025
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The rice serves as both a foundation and a mediator, bridging the creamy blandness of the pasta salad with the blunt-instrument intensity of the plate lunch’s third and central component, one kind or another of salty, savory meat.—
Helen Rosner,
The New Yorker,
16 Feb. 2025
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The game does a great job of balancing mechanics between the two players so that one character isn’t the more desirable choice: while one chapter transforms Zoe into a flying fairy and Mio into a powerful ape, another gives Mio a soaring dragon and Zoe a climbing one.—
Katcy Stephan,
Variety,
4 Mar. 2025
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Interim Director of Aviation, Michael A. Reisman, said that the United Airlines plane would remain at Waco Regional Airport for one to two days to be looked over by mechanics, per 25 News.—
Escher Walcott,
People.com,
3 Mar. 2025
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These self-executing contracts with terms directly written into code automate processes, reducing the need for intermediaries and minimizing operational risks.—
Geoff Ira,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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According to Earles, the Disney Channel show’s writers eventually realized that his big-brother-kid-sister dynamic with Cyrus worked better without the simian intermediary.—
John Russell,
People.com,
4 Mar. 2025
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In addition to writing, Michelle is a wine educator, moderator, and judge, and co-host of Just Getting Better podcast.—
Michelle Williams,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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Try your hand as a Games moderator at the behind-the-scenes work that goes into the Games community forums.—
New York Times Games,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Troubleshooter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/troubleshooter. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.
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