intermediate
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Consider a combination of a short-term bond fund and an intermediate bond fund for the money you decide not to put into equities.
From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026
One fossil revealed a segmented cartilaginous sternum, along with sternal ribs, intermediate ribs, and connections linking the ribcage to the shoulder girdle.
From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2026
Bonds have been a safer bet, with the average intermediate core bond fund flat this year.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
West Texas intermediate futures are trading at $97 a barrel for late May but decline to $80 by late October and $74 next April.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
It is comparatively inexpensive: the cost of a single naval vessel of intermediate size— a modern destroyer, say—would pay for a decade-long program in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing intermediate
Power Prefix: inter-
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Four Power Prefixes: anti-, con-, inter-, and uni-.
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