intermediating

present participle of intermediate
as in intervening
to act as a go-between for opposing sides if the secretary-general chooses to intermediate in this dispute, he'll need all of his diplomatic skills just to get both sides in the same room

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Recent Examples of intermediating Rare is the business that grows by intermediating what is rendered worthless by the intermediation. John Tamny, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
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  • In those intervening 35 years, China had moved 800 million rural peasants — living in extreme poverty on US$2 a day — into city apartments and integrated them into the global economy.
    Peter Leyden, Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The intervening two years have only brought more pain and bloodshed throughout the region.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 7 Oct. 2025
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  • The engineers explain that the robot’s balance and locomotion have been trained in a simulated environment with slopes, obstacles, and interfering forces, where it has been run for hundreds of thousands of virtual hours.
    Billy Perrigo, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Fiscal rules left broken Officials in Brussels are unlikely to want to appear to be interfering in domestic political affairs, but the pressure is on for Paris to embark on some serious fiscal consolidation — and fast.
    Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2025

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“Intermediating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intermediating. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.

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