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intermediate

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


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Those intermediate molecules can drift into neighboring synthesis sites, reducing the separation between reactions even though the pH remains tightly controlled.

From Science Daily Jul. 9, 2026

The Mittelstand—a broad tier of midsize manufacturers, mainly specialized in capital and intermediate goods and reliant on exports—once thrived by making machines for factories everywhere.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 4, 2026

But what has French legal minds racing is the possibility of an intermediate sentence.

From BBC Jul. 4, 2026

Invesco’s Waldner says defensive retail buyers are favoring short to intermediate maturity munis over long-term bonds.

From Barron's Jun. 26, 2026

As physicists built bigger and more ambitious machines, they began to find or postulate particles or particle families seemingly without number: muons, pions, hyperons, mesons, K-mesons, Higgs bosons, intermediate vector bosons, baryons, tachyons.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

Converting natural gas into flexible chemical intermediates could expand industrial options and gradually decrease reliance on traditional petrochemical feedstocks.

From Science Daily Feb. 27, 2026

New driver Isack Hadjar crashed in the afternoon in the quick final corner, having just switched from full wet tyres to intermediates.

From BBC Jan. 30, 2026

That suggests Norris had previously been managing his pace to contain the wear on his intermediates.

From BBC Mar. 18, 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

How many intermediates between you and Elvis Presley?

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 Caldwell, David

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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