Both Uses
mediate
in
A Hologram for the King
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- Now that he was Ruby's defender, he had become the mediator between all children and their mystifying parents — was that it?
p. 236.3 *mediator = someone who helps others to settle a disagreement
- Alan stepped between them, bolstered by their apparent faith in him as mediator, and demanded that the two men open their palms.†
p. 223.2
Definitions:
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(mediate as in: asked her to mediate the talks) help others to settle a disagreement
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(mediate as in: disease is mediated by) influenced
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, mediate can mean: being neither at the beginning nor end in a series -- as in "It is in a mediate position."