multistep
adjective
mul·ti·step
ˌməl-tē-ˈstep 
-ˌtī-
: involving two or more distinct steps or stages
the first step in a multistep process
a multistep strategy/approach
Play strategy games like chess and Monopoly often, recommends Suzanne Farmer … . They're great practice for making decisions and thinking through multistep problems …—
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Running these models requires a massive amount of compute, and costs spike as organizations consume more tokens to support agents that conduct reasoning, multistep tasks and continuous interactions.
—Manosiz Bhattacharyya, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
That question led my colleagues and me on a multistep journey across cultures and, ultimately, to new data that suggest cash may be more persuasive in the West than in more collectivistic cultures outside the West.
—Thomas Talhelm, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2025
The next step is a Federal Register publication, followed by a 30- to 60-day comment window and a multistep process before any final rule could take effect.
—Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
OpenAI said the new models perform well on reasoning benchmarks, which have emerged as the key measurements for AI performance, with models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and DeepSeek fiercely competing over their abilities to tackle multistep logic, code generation, and complex problem-solving.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2025
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Manosiz Bhattacharyya, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
That question led my colleagues and me on a multistep journey across cultures and, ultimately, to new data that suggest cash may be more persuasive in the West than in more collectivistic cultures outside the West.
—Thomas Talhelm, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2025
The next step is a Federal Register publication, followed by a 30- to 60-day comment window and a multistep process before any final rule could take effect.
—Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
OpenAI said the new models perform well on reasoning benchmarks, which have emerged as the key measurements for AI performance, with models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and DeepSeek fiercely competing over their abilities to tackle multistep logic, code generation, and complex problem-solving.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2025
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“Multistep.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/multistep. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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