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intermediate

[in-ter-mee-dee-it] / ˌɪn tərˈmi di ɪt /


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In the first half, Chambliss led four scoring drives, dicing the LSU defense up with intermediate passes and connecting on deep bombs down the sidelines, as the Rebels built a 24-7 lead.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

The state may represent an intermediate stage in the reaction that breaks down N2.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

They may hold an intermediate level of confidence.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 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

While I was encouraged by their militancy, I thought that their philosophy, in its concentration on blackness, was exclusionary, and represented an intermediate view that was not fully mature.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

These radicals are highly useful intermediates in natural product synthesis and pharmaceutical research, but most available techniques are designed for aryl ketones rather than simpler alkyl ketones.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 26, 2025

But once the track was dry enough for intermediates in the final session, Norris was the pace-setter.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2025

Two seconds of that offset can be accounted for by a slower pit stop, the other five by the extra lap on worn intermediates.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2025

The team used electrocatalysis, a type of chemical reaction initiated by electron transfers to and from reactants on surfaces of catalysts, to convert carbon dioxide into biocompatible intermediates, such as acetate and ethanol.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2024

If the target is well known, the number of intermediates is even smaller, especially if you have a link with one or two celebrities.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

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.

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

Man is like the great universe, and in both the spiritual cannot come in direct contact with the corporeal, but needs intermediating powers to bring the extremes together.

From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik




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