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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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At Large follows two best friends, Bill and Joe, who are ordinary dads and electrical repairmen.—
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The elevator division of the city Buildings Department later learned that the repairman was in the pit of the dumbwaiter shaft, working on the hoist cables, when the dumbwaiter cab plummeted on top of him.—
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Nets head coach Jordi Fernandez, attempting to play peacemaker, wound up getting shoved into the stands.—
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The president's goal of being a global peacemaker, however, is facing new tests in the Middle East.—
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The largest such killing occurred in late September, 2024, when Russian troops shot to death 16 captured Ukrainian servicemen.—
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There are also free filing options available for elderly Americans and current and former U.S. military servicemen and women.—
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Eventually, a third doctor removed it in the operating room.—
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In such cases, law-enforcement officers—but also, at times, doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel, mostly working for private corporations—watch for days, weeks, and months as ailing people waste away in their care.—
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Speaking to Iranian state television from Algeria, Abbas Araghchi maintained the talks would be indirect, likely with Omani mediators shuttling between the parties.—
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In diplomatic terms, that means mediators pass messages between the sides.—
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Cheating, hacking and opaque loot box mechanics often undermine player trust.—
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Quantum mechanics is based on a mathematical method used to describe very ordinary physical effects.—
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But a senior Iranian official said any negotiations would be indirect, with Oman acting as intermediary.—
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Apprenticeship intermediaries can be public, non-profit, or for-profit organizations and can work locally, regionally, statewide, or nationally.—
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Dickerson — whose mother, Nancy Dickerson, made broadcasting history in 1960 as CBS' first female correspondent — preceded Brennan as moderator of Face the Nation.—
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But the duo will be part of a regular ensemble that also includes political insight from Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan and immersive weather reports from chief weathercaster Lonnie Quinn.—
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“Troubleshooter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/troubleshooter. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.
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