intermediate
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Most ski slopes are coded for difficulty—with the green circle as the easy, the blue square as intermediate and the black diamond as advanced.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
Rather than exploring every possible route, the proteins progress through a relatively small number of stable intermediate stages that guide assembly toward completion.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
Instead, they pass through an intermediate stage in which they can divide only a limited number of times before completing their development into specialized cells.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
Howard said Monday that he’s recommending clients use a bond “ladder” strategy to seize the opportunity by buying individual bonds, mutual funds or exchange-traded funds, with a range of short to intermediate maturities.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
During this process, it goes through an intermediate step of being ammonia.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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Hamilton and the others who chose to use dry tyres at the start immediately lived to regret their decision, as they were passed by all the cars on intermediates.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
"The aluminum edge shifted to the low-electron-density edge, which means some electron-rich intermediates formed," Yang said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
"There are other reactive intermediates we've never been able to isolate, just like this one," Lavallo said.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 11, 2026
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
We can be almost certain, then, given these assumptions, that two people chosen at random will be linked, as were the strangers on the business trip, by a chain of at most two intermediates.
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
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
The SEC’s investigation also concluded that the DAO wasn’t a general partnership made up of its various token holders, because there was a layer of management that intermediated between the fund and its investors.
From The Verge ● Jul. 27, 2017
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
Without such intermediating portions of concretely real experience the pragmatist sees no materials out of which the adaptive relation called truth can be built up.
From Meaning of Truth by William James
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Power Prefix: inter-
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