How to Use arbiter in a Sentence

arbiter

noun
  • The Supreme Court is already the final arbiter over ethics and the law in our system.
    Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Yet even these arbiters of digital trends seemed genuinely intrigued.
    Jackie Snow, Quartz, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Anyone — you or I, for example — could play the role of impartial arbiter.
    Mario Loyola, National Review, 13 Aug. 2020
  • And its star had to be an animal, because this needed to be a world that didn’t respect the human as an arbiter of value.
    Adam Thirlwell, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Tempted to think that his own sense of justice was the missing link, Obama tried to be an impartial arbiter.
    Mario Loyola, National Review, 13 Aug. 2020
  • The audience, not the speaker, is the ultimate arbiter of meaning.
    Dr. Marcus Collins, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Over the course of her two-plus decades-long career, Beyoncé has time and time again distinguished herself as an arbiter of intention.
    Cliché Wynter, Allure, 31 July 2020
  • To uphold the Constitution, politicians and government are supposed to be neutral arbiters of the law.
    The Denver Post, 11 Oct. 2024
  • But Facebook has proven willing to make some exceptions to that policy, as well as to Zuckerberg's now-standard line that a company like his should not be an arbiter of truth.
    Donie O'Sullivan and Daniel Dale, CNN, 1 Sep. 2020
  • Controversy is as good for audience development as scoops, and without a standards board the only arbiter of quality is the creator herself.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2024
  • LaPierre, who has served as the taciturn and incendiary face of the organization for more than a decade, was the recipient, and often the arbiter, of this largesse.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 7 Aug. 2020
  • The arbiters of style, function and quality in Amazon’s comments section tend to look for a few important criteria before granting the holy grail label to a travel bag.
    Kristine Solomon, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 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
  • The dungeon master is the godlike arbiter of the game, whose responsibilities include settling disputes, making decisions and pushing the story along.
    Brandon Clements, Houston Chronicle, 18 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • For almost a decade now, the EU has been trying to convince the Swiss to accept an arbiter.
    Pieter Cleppe, National Review, 29 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • But who died and made Google the ultimate arbiter of knowledge?
    Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2020
  • 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

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