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Definition

someone who settles disputes — often because of reputation

or:

someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue

She was the final arbiter on all matters of fashion.

arbiter = someone who settles disputes — often because of reputation

As the sole arbiter of each of the conditions, I can tell you that they have all been met and exceeded.
Jim Stovall -- The Ultimate Gift

arbiter = someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue

every man is the arbiter of his own virtues
William Faulkner -- The Sound and the Fury

arbiter = person who settles disputes

You will be sole arbiter of his fate.
Dumas, Alexandre -- The Man in the Iron Mask
They were the arbiters of fashion, the Court of last Appeal, and they knew it, and bowed to their fate.
Wharton, Edith -- The Age of Innocence
I looked upon them as superior beings who would be the arbiters of my future destiny.
Shelley, Mary -- Frankenstein
They think they think, and such thinkless creatures are the arbiters of the lives of the few who really think.
London, Jack -- Martin Eden
Its sole arbiter is Taste.
Poe, Edgar Allan -- Poems
He is not the arbiter of the work of art.
Wilde, Oscar -- The Soul of Man under Socialism
...who is the arbiter of ships' destinies.
Conrad, Joseph -- The Mirror of the Sea
Any soldier can be killed by the enemy in the heat of battle, by a weapon approved by the arbiters and rulemakers of warfare.
William Faulkner -- Light in August
He was caught unawares and confronted with his judges, the arbiters of his destiny.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
The Riders of old were arbiters of justice above and beyond the leaders of their time.
Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
About the will of the people being the wisest arbitrator and so on.
Kazuo Ishiguro -- The Remains of the Day
The states were thus to be the arbiters of federal authority.
David McCullough -- John Adams
Cicero is an arbiter in thought, just as Brutus is an arbiter by the sword.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
He wanted the commander to act as arbiter.
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Martial law enabled the army to assume the functions of arbitrator in the controversy, but no effort at conciliation was made.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude
The land will be the final arbiter of human conflict; no matter how intense the conflict, the victory of earth and grave will be undeniable and complete.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
Judge Narragansett is to act as our arbiter, hi case of disagreements.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged

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