How to Use interlocutor in a Sentence

interlocutor

noun

• In the past Oman has played the role of interlocutor between Israel and the Arab world.
  — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2020
• Oman for years has served as a key interlocutor between Iran and the West.
  — Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune, 27 Aug. 2020
• The great virtue of his book is that Baram lets his interlocutors speak for themselves.
  — Gal Beckerman, New York Times, 22 May 2017
• Oman long has served as an interlocutor between Iran and the West.
  — Jon Gambrell The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 16 June 2024
• Oman long has served as an interlocutor between both Iran and the Houthis during the war.
  — Jon Gambrell, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2023
• When drafting your next email, be sure to check in on your interlocutor first and then get down to business.
  — Loubna Noureddin, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
• The trip was widely interpreted as a means for Abe, one of the few leaders with close ties to both the US and Iran, to serve as an interlocutor.
  — Adam Rasmi, Quartz, 13 June 2019
• The set of her jaw is as expressive as her eyes, which can slice right through an errant interlocutor.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2020
• His dark eyes, which don’t register delight in the way that his slow smile does, rarely stray from his interlocutor.
  — The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
• My interlocutors had a range of views on this, but in general the Gazans were skeptical.
  — Rachel Lu, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• One of the learnings here is that developers should think of LLMs as a language interlocutor, rather than a source of truth.
  — Sridhar Ramaswamy, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2024
• Thus the thunderings from Ms. May – and her EU interlocutors, too.
  — Ruth Walker, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 May 2017
• Alice’s chief interlocutor is her brother Japhy (Justin Kirk), who floats in and out of the play with spectral freedom.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2022
• Voss tells you to mirror your interlocutor’s body language, and to parrot her last few words as a question.
  — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
• Ray is spindly, with a mass of gray curls, rimless glasses, and the slight, kindly stoop of a man who makes an effort to meet his interlocutor halfway.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2019
• Each of the paintings has an interlocutor: a sculpture belonging to a series that Rose calls Loops.
  — The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2022
• Egypt, a key interlocutor with Hamas, is a key target of US diplomacy.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 18 May 2021
• Those who have spoken in-depth with him over the years describe a difficult interlocutor.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
• Campbell’s interlocutor goes on to ask what brought about his collapse.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2021
• However, one of our roles is to be the interlocutor with law enforcement.
  — Eric Berger, sun-sentinel.com, 15 June 2021
• Be straightforward, keep to the point and make sure your interlocutor understands you.
  — Alex Lutskiy, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
• Macron in particular has acted as an interlocutor between Putin and the West, and the two men spoke Tuesday after the group call with Biden.
  — Kevin Liptak, CNN, 29 Mar. 2022
• Oman, which saw its long-serving sultan die earlier this year, long has had close ties to Iran and has served as an interlocutor between Tehran and the West.
  — Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune, 9 Aug. 2020
• Three essential questions if you (or your interlocutor) are pressed for time: #1 , #2, and #9.
  — Anne Fisher, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2019
• Trump’s interlocutor this time was Turkey, not Ukraine.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2019
• The tensions aren’t great news for Trump, whose Chinese interlocutors will be even less inclined to cave on trade matters in the face of American pressure.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2019
• The poet and literary critic Fred Moten, who has been a friend and interlocutor of Nelson’s for about a decade, described her as a thinker with little use for hard and fast rules.
  — New York Times, 2 Sep. 2021
• The following day, the leader’s younger sister and the main interlocutor in the South, Kim Yo Jong, told her brother about the visit before locking arms with him for a photo.
  — Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2018
• Haniyeh was the key interlocutor with Qatari and Egyptian mediators in the negotiations over the deal.
  — Barak Ravid, Axios, 31 July 2024
• Even a drunk Melanie proves a formidable interlocutor, though.
  — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 6 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024