intermediate
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This pathway helps drive the transformation of monocytes into the intermediate form associated with prolonged inflammatory activity.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
Cheat Code: Chinese AI companies attempted to clone American AI models by funneling real Chinese user queries to them via a network of intermediate platforms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
A lawyer herself, Harris notes that because the country already has 13 intermediate courts of appeal, a 13-member Supreme Court would allow each justice to review motions from a lower court one-to-one.
From Slate ● Sep. 3, 2026
Neutral atomic hydrogen occupies an important intermediate position between the universe's larger gas supply and the molecular hydrogen that can ultimately fuel star formation.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
As physicists built bigger and more ambitious machines, they began to find or postulate particles or particle families seemingly without number: muons, pions, hyperons, mesons, K-mesons, Higgs bosons, intermediate vector bosons, baryons, tachyons.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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"There are other reactive intermediates we've never been able to isolate, just like this one," Lavallo said.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 11, 2026
In simpler terms, the catalyst carefully manages highly reactive radical intermediates so they drive the desired transformation without causing unwanted side reactions.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2026
But once the track was dry enough for intermediates in the final session, Norris was the pace-setter.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2025
The new material, however, bypasses these intermediates entirely, converting CO2 directly into CO on its surface.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2025
How many intermediates between you and Elvis Presley?
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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Analyst Thomas Strong says funding costs are the biggest surprise in Judo’s trading update and he sees them benefiting further from the Australian business lender’s previously announced introduction of intermediated savings deposits from next month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025
The United Nations recognizes roughly 180 currencies, but “the reality is most global payments are still intermediated through a Western currency-dominated financial system,” said Eswar Prasad, a professor of international trade policy at Cornell University.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2022
Critically, it said a digital dollar would "best suit" U.S. needs if it were intermediated through the current financial system.
From Reuters ● Jan. 20, 2022
Speech has never been more free or less intermediated, says Nesrine Malik.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 3, 2019
Funds and assistance for the preparation of intermediated drafts and logistics support for all stages of preparation of this guide were provided by Biological Systems, Inc.,
From Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Western North Atlantic A Guide to Their Identification by David Caldwell
Banks like JPMorgan have been reckoning with the growing popularity of stablecoins, which threaten the traditional role that they have played in intermediating payments between customers around the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
We were intermediating and we were hedging our risk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026
Dealers typically support market liquidity by intermediating customer trades - for example, by taking customer sell orders into inventory when buyers are absent.
From Reuters ● Nov. 8, 2022
Uber embraced the mayor's decision, calling it "the first step toward guaranteeing that apps intermediating travel with technology have a place in the city."
From Reuters ● May 10, 2016
He seemed to float along the way as one floats in a happy dream, where motion is born at once of the will, without the intermediating mechanics of nerve, muscle, and fulcrum.
From Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald
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Power Prefix: inter-
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