intermediate
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If you’re drawing on bonds as an income source, and you’ll need to sell even if prices are down, consider holding shorter-term bonds and intermediate term bonds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
When electrons and protons move in a coordinated way, molecules can avoid intermediate steps that would otherwise require more energy.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
After the Bahrain Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton said that, had he started on the intermediate tyres, he could have won the race.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 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
One by one, each aircrew dropped their bombs and then returned to their intermediate airfield to refuel.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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In the first few laps, Hamilton was on slicks and Verstappen on intermediates.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
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
This comprehensive approach allowed for a thorough investigation of the photoinduced change of the states, providing a deeper understanding of the underlying processes and intermediates involved.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2024
I like to maintain that the number of intermediates linking me to these historical figures is one: Russell.
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.
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
Where there is no intermediating Church, the soul is either in direct and mystical union with God or else wholly estranged and indifferent.
From The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) by George Tyrrell
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Power Prefix: inter-
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Four Power Prefixes: anti-, con-, inter-, and uni-.
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