mediating

present participle of mediate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of mediating While Qatar has not closed the door on mediating peace in Gaza, the talks are at best in limbo, at worst lying in the embers of Israel’s most recent assassination attempt. Paula Hancocks, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025 Meanwhile, there are eight massless gluons (mediating the strong nuclear force), one massless photon (mediating the electromagnetic force), and three very massive W-and-Z bosons (mediating the weak nuclear force), plus the Higgs boson to complete the Standard Model. Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025 Gustafson has been in cases where dozens of such insurance firms have been mediating over when the pollution occurred, and which insurance policy was in force at the time. Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025 But mediating those disputes must occur in a manner that respects the Judiciary's constitutional role. Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025 Bob Eubanks mediating between our newlyweds. Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 22 Aug. 2025 First, on the longer main roads the cars mostly travel without interruption, but there are stop signs mediating access to these through roads from the smaller streets that cross them. Rodney Brooks, IEEE Spectrum, 27 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mediating
Verb
  • Six months later, distraction found its own way of intervening.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • But, after marrying and divorcing others in the intervening years, the pair coupled up again in 2021.
    Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Kremlin has repeatedly denied interfering in foreign elections.
    Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Particle has also accused Epic of defaming the company and interfering in its business relations.
    Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Mediating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mediating. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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