How to Use arbiter in a Sentence

arbiter

noun
  • 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 Supreme Court is already the final arbiter over ethics and the law in our system.
    Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • That’s when Monáe swept in, already in character as Javier’s longtime friend, arbiter of his will and host of the evening.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Dec. 2022
  • If not the arbiter of heartbreak, the 23-year-old is certainly heartbreak’s muse.
    Zoe Haylock, Vulture, 25 June 2021
  • In Putin's Russia, the main arbiter is the state, controlled by the former Cold War spies and technocrats in his entourage.
    Fox News, 7 June 2024
  • So when peer review is extolled as the arbiter of truth, Errington balks.
    Andrea Morris, Forbes, 5 May 2022
  • Richards and Sheen started the new year by moving their divorce into the hands of a private arbiter.
    Jacqueline Weiss, PEOPLE.com, 15 July 2022
  • The Supreme Leader is the final arbiter on most decisions in Iran.
    Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 4 July 2024
  • The statements adopt an imperative from the future, which, it’s said, will be the best arbiter.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
  • She has been known as the grande dame and social arbiter of the show, living in a Potomac-area mansion with her husband.
    Olivia Diaz, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The long-term legacy of this case may be that the Supreme Court led by John Roberts has now become an arbiter of public honesty.
    Morgan Marietta, The Conversation, 18 June 2020
  • But despite the refusal by the Swiss to accept such a sovereignty-eroding arbiter, that is what the EU seems set on trying to sell to the British.
    Pieter Cleppe, National Review, 29 Oct. 2020
  • The audience, not the speaker, is the ultimate arbiter of meaning.
    Dr. Marcus Collins, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
  • To uphold the Constitution, politicians and government are supposed to be neutral arbiters of the law.
    The Denver Post, 11 Oct. 2024

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