intermediaries

plural of intermediary

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Recent Examples of intermediaries The middlemen, known as pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, have been around since the late 1960s and serve as intermediaries between drug manufacturers and health insurance providers. Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 11 Oct. 2025 The tactics have allegedly included sourcing chips through intermediaries and stockpiling them, prompting the US to consider tighter restrictions and penalties. PC Magazine, 10 Oct. 2025 By embracing a direct-to-consumer sales model, drugmakers can bypass middlemen such as pharmacy benefit managers and potentially capture some of the billions of dollars in revenue that flow through those intermediaries each year. Annika Kim Constantino,bertha Coombs, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2025 Measures also include restricting dollar-clearing and maritime insurance, blacklisting intermediaries and dark fleet tankers, and targeting front companies. Robert Muggah, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025 Sliwa has said that wealthy intermediaries have offered him money in exchange for dropping out, accusing Cuomo of being behind them. Dave Smith, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025 The company also has a vast network of farmers and rubber tappers as well as cooperatives that act as intermediaries, working directly with the teams on the ground. Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 30 Sep. 2025 Here was a platform that allowed users to buy and sell cryptocurrencies without the help of intermediaries, like a bank or a broker. Annabelle Huang, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025 Bitcoin allows users to send money without intermediaries. Javier Bastardo, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intermediaries
Noun
  • The deal calls for the creation of a joint task force, including the United States and other mediators, to share information about the remains and try to find them.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Israeli officials say the group must now provide full accounting for all deceased hostages, while mediators work to preserve a deal that has so far halted two years of devastating conflict.
    Callum Sutherland, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The middlemen, known as pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, have been around since the late 1960s and serve as intermediaries between drug manufacturers and health insurance providers.
    Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 11 Oct. 2025
  • This type of direct contracting could generate substantial savings in cases when the middlemen model is set up at the expense of patients.
    Bobby Jindal, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Starting now, Ticketmaster, which appointed a new president last week, is now adopting a policy allowing all of its users to have just one account, brokers included.
    Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025
  • According to Europol, the family has made extensive use of a Dubai hawala network—an untraceable money-transfer system based on trust among individual brokers.
    Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This time around in talks with studios, union negotiators will be facing a new but familiar opponent on the other side of the table after longtime studio negotiator Carol Lombardini stepped down.
    Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Headlining the group is more than two dozen ambassadorial appointments, including Sergio Gor, a top White House aide, and former Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker to become the top liaisons to India and the Bahamas.
    Al Weaver, The Hill, 7 Oct. 2025
  • That kind of interpretation worried other outside liaisons, who participate in ACIP meetings but don’t vote on vaccine policy recommendations to the CDC like members of the committee do.
    Meg Tirrell, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • After becoming more comfortable, intermediates often connect with local caving clubs through the National Speleological Society for deeper exploration.
    Heide Brandes, AFAR Media, 15 Oct. 2025
  • DyStar’s production plants consumed 70,760 tonnes of raw materials and intermediates in 2024.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The event will be hosted by RJ Cyler along with festival ambassadors Lil Rel Howery, Aida Rodriguez, and Kinigra Deon.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The cornerstone is a 30-second television spot that will appear on the networks of NBCUniversal in select markets and nationally on Peacock, showcasing Nulo’s team of athlete ambassadors and their pets.
    Sportico Staff, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Cavazos says this work — chasing leads or even, at times, following ICE agents — to alert the community can be hard, especially now that the Department of Homeland Security regularly accuses groups like Cavazos' of interfering with their jobs and endangering the lives of immigration officers.
    Marisa Peñaloza, NPR, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Typically, by the time the first scene hits the screen, handfuls (more likely hordes) of people have had first looks including cast, crew, friends, family, media, agents, managers, publicists, etc.
    Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Intermediaries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intermediaries. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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