intermediate
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"The results are consistent with the intermediate disturbance hypothesis, an important framework in ecology and conservation."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026
The research also raises intriguing questions about bacterial evolution, including how such an elaborate defense arose and whether type VI retrons represent an earlier, later, or intermediate stage in the evolution of these immune systems.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
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
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
In April 1960, Francis Crick and Jacob met at Sydney Brenner’s cramped apartment in Cambridge to discuss the identity of this mysterious intermediate.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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In the first few laps, Hamilton was on slicks and Verstappen on intermediates.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
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
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
This facilitates the reaction of the intermediates with each other to make a polyester, which gels into solid particles that can easily be separated out.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2024
Even in these cases, however, the probability of two randomly selected people being linked by two intermediates is unexpectedly high.
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
In that consideration, Bowman said, the most important thing is “the preservation of an intermediated banking model,” she said at an Independent Community Bankers of America meeting.
From Reuters ● Feb. 9, 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
Intermediā′tion, act of intermediating; Intermē′dium, a medium between: an intervening agent or instrument.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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Power Prefix: inter-
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