How to Use moderator in a Sentence

moderator

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  • She acts as the moderator in our office meetings.
  • The moderator allowed audience members to ask the governor questions.
  • Co-host Sara Haines stepped in as moderator of the show in her place.
    — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The state laws are not about protecting speech, the moderators wrote.
    — Carrie Johnson, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024
  • In the process, 260 Sama moderators were expected to lose their jobs.
    — Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 21 July 2023
  • Like all of us, The View moderator Whoopi Goldberg is tired — very, very tired — of daylight saving time.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The suitors are also in discussions with the striking moderators, who are the core of the program.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 28 Aug. 2023
  • That is how policies are built, that is how tens of thousands of moderators are doing their jobs.
    — Dexter Thomas, WIRED, 1 Feb. 2024
  • In addition to her role as moderator on The View, Goldberg has kept up a busy acting slate in recent years.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2023
  • DeSantis was notably quiet and had to be asked twice by the moderators for his answer.
    — Steve Peoples and Nicholas Riccardi, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2023
  • When the moderator asked Bastian about the rewards program changes, the audience at the Atlanta Rotary Club booed.
    — Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The moment was widely missed due to the moderators talking over the pair while the exchange was happening, trying to regain control of the debate.
    — Hannah Demissie, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Musk has a strong pro-free-speech stance and—thanks to cost-cutting—not a lot of moderators, so X is more relaxed about disinformation than most of its peers.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Musk and the moderator, a Musk acolyte named David Sacks, kept trying to assert that the technical screw-ups amounted to a triumph brought about by a large audience.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024
  • This grief group had no moderator and no rules other than those dictated by the Little League of America — and the human heart.
    — Teresa Strasser, Good Housekeeping, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The workers say the low pay and prestige unfairly makes moderators low-skilled workers in the eyes of German employment rules.
    — Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2023
  • However, the platform is trying to patch things up with volunteer moderators, a core group who launched the protests over Reddit's API change.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 20 July 2023
  • As a result, many of those moderators that have worked, for free, to build communities on the site for so long, took their subreddits private in a display of protest.
    — Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
  • Fagan still worries that the moderators who take over may misunderstand the job.
    — Curbed, 13 Dec. 2023
  • In Kenya, many moderators who have lost their jobs now face deportation.
    — WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
  • One of Whoopi Goldberg's former flames is currently at least 108 years old, according to The View moderator's math.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The Republican Party has not announce who the moderators will be.
    — CBS News, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The panel moderator, Heather Long of the Washington Post, did, however.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
  • And then there was Vivek Ramaswamy, who demanded that the moderator apologize for even asking such a question.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2023
  • If a moderator concludes the host appears to be under 18 years old, the livestream is stopped immediately and the user is suspended.
    — Ana Faguy, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The [studio’s] focus group moderator was trying so hard.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Interviews are spread apart, in a separate room with a moderator.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2023
  • This session was led by a former UN moderator, who seemed absurdly terrified of them, poised in her chair as if ready to leap out at a moment’s notice.
    — Hazlitt, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Introduce yourself and ask if you can be involved as a keynote speaker, panelist, or even as a moderator.
    — Sindhya Valloppillil, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • But, when the moderators reminded her of that history, Haley just about disavowed it.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2024

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