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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But an explicit multistep road map moves the debate from abstractions to timelines.
—Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Oct. 2025
Any impurities will be in the liquid, which is then run through a multistep distillation process that separates the pure trichlorosilane from anything unwanted.
—IEEE Spectrum, 22 Sep. 2025
Deep Monitoring And Debugging AI agents operate in workflows with APIs, third-party data and multistep chains of logic—complicating the debugging and monitoring.
—Gaurav Aggarwal, Forbes.com, 17 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
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Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Oct. 2025
Any impurities will be in the liquid, which is then run through a multistep distillation process that separates the pure trichlorosilane from anything unwanted.
—IEEE Spectrum, 22 Sep. 2025
Deep Monitoring And Debugging AI agents operate in workflows with APIs, third-party data and multistep chains of logic—complicating the debugging and monitoring.
—Gaurav Aggarwal, Forbes.com, 17 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
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“Multistep.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/multistep. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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