mediating

present participle of mediate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of mediating For a time, McKesson said, the university also appeared to be mediating conversations between Peete’s victims and his immediate family. Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025 May Improve Heart Health A pescatarian diet may improve heart health through weight loss, lowering your cholesterol, or mediating inflammation. Jennifer Lefton, Verywell Health, 23 Oct. 2025 Despite the signing of a key document by four mediating countries, the contents of the document remain undisclosed. Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 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 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
  • Sabatini said that former President Ronald Reagan's doctrine included intervening on behalf of and supporting military governments with the intention of stopping the spread of communism.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Urbana always had a conservative bent, but its politics have become a defining feature in the intervening years.
    Grace Byron, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Here the president is running roughshod over state and local governments that are not interfering in the federal government’s work.
    Newsweek Contributors, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
  • 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

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“Mediating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mediating. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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