How to Use intermediary in a Sentence

intermediary

1 of 2 noun

• He served as an intermediary between the workers and the executives.
• While four of them have been released, the fate of the rest is unknown, as Qatar serves as an intermediary in working to free the hostages.
  — Gregory F. Treverton, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2023
• But this one didn’t have a hedge fund as an intermediary.
  — Eliza Ronalds-Hannon, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2023
• But in the intermediary, at some point, Nick Saban is gone.
  — Matt Cohen | [e-mail], al, 28 July 2023
• Her sister acted as intermediary and set up a date for the two to attend a Browns game.
  — cleveland, 30 Sep. 2022
• Agents saw the driver hand cash to the intermediary, who wasn’t identified in the affidavit.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• Using a waitress as an intermediary, Davis and Manuele offered to buy Irvin a drink.
  — Dallas News, 12 Feb. 2023
• In the mid-twenties, intermediaries sought to arrange a meeting between Jünger and Hitler.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• Conversely, if you are intrigued by black kitchen cabinets but aren’t quite ready to move to the dark side, navy can be a chic intermediary.
  — Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 3 Feb. 2023
• In this scheme, a tier of Fog Drones acts as intermediaries between less sophisticated Edge Drones and the cloud.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Nov. 2022
• Erdogan has sought to play the role of intermediary between Russia and Ukraine.
  — Bloomberg.com, 3 Jan. 2023
• The water district is responsible for paying the interns, who work part-time, by way of an intermediary, and at a rate of $27 an hour.
  — Calmatters, The Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2024
• One aspect of picking an intermediary is to make sure their relationships are broad enough to cover the parts of the market that appeal to you.
  — Bruce Werner, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
• Bennett served as an unlikely intermediary between the two nations and was one of the few leaders from the West to visit Moscow during the war.
  — Theara Coleman, The Week, 6 Feb. 2023
• Large transactions often pass through murky intermediaries, and the vetting of them is opaque.
  — Vivian Wang, New York Times, 29 May 2023
• Clay obtained the messages – 230 pages of them – from an intermediary and provided them to The Courier Journal, which published many of them.
  — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 15 Sep. 2022
• The bribes, paid by an unnamed intermediary, went to accounts in Florida and elsewhere.
  — David Smagalla, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2023
• After the riot, Rhodes tried to get a message to Trump through an intermediary, imploring the president not to give up his fight to hold onto power.
  — Lindsay Whitehurst, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2022
• But the scheme this time was part of an FBI operation, with the intermediary acting under the agency’s direction.
  — Allison Prang, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022
• Should the village, the film then asks, reinstate an intermediary or find another way?
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2023
• Stocks are purchased and sold on stock exchanges, which act as the intermediary between investors and companies.
  — Ivana Pino, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2022
• The teacher relayed the information to Parker through an intermediary, the suit says.
  — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
• Lenders will often compensate your dealership for serving as an intermediary and pass the cost along to you.
  — Elizabeth Rivelli, Car and Driver, 15 Nov. 2022
• Russia directly and through an intermediary tried to get the Ukrainian government to capitulate in the initial hours of the war.
  — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2022
• Qatar has been acting as an intermediary, relaying messages to Hamas leaders in and outside of Gaza.
  — NBC News, 10 Nov. 2023
• Wall Street would become an intermediary between investors and cryptocurrency in the case of ETFs.
  — TIME, 11 Jan. 2024
• Because of the role of intermediaries, payment often does not make it to the actual end payer that holds the financial risk of using these therapies.
  — Emad Samad, STAT, 9 Mar. 2023
• The crucial intermediary for that is the utilities sector.
  — Bypeter Vanham, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2023
• Qatar has sometimes acted as an intermediary in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and a number of Hamas leaders have homes there.
  — Victoria Kim, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2023
• Read full article By now, the Sox have surely heard from would-be candidates for the job, either directly or via intermediaries.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023

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intermediary

2 of 2 adjective

• Not sure if there is an intermediary step but the Breeders’ Cup Classic is in the cards.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2019
• Trump cast the United States in a more intermediary role.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 4 May 2017
• Turns out an intermediary bank that had worked with Wells Fargo had the money.
  — Christopher Elliott, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2022
• In some parts of the northeast, whitetails are perhaps too abundant, given their intermediary role in the transfer of brain worm to moose.
  — Dennis Anderson, Star Tribune, 10 July 2021
• The most likely pathway, the report found, was the first theory, that the virus passed from a bat to an intermediary animal and then to humans.
  — Erin Schumaker, ABC News, 8 Apr. 2021
• The report says the most likely origin was a transfer to humans through bats with an intermediary host.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2021
• How does the studio itself relate to that idea, as an intermediary force?
  — Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2022
• The report said that the virus was most likely spread to humans from bats via an intermediary animal.
  — Fortune, 1 Apr. 2021
• Setting intermediary process goals along the way can help, Gagliardi says.
  — Sarah Digiulio, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2019
• Perhaps Russia might detonate a nuclear weapon over the Black Sea, a kind of intermediary step that doesn’t kill lots of people but would shock the world.
  — Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 7 Mar. 2022
• In the bill, Democrats also take aim at the campaign-finance system in which big donors can funnel money through intermediary groups.
  — Siobhan Hughes, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2021
• But it’s not yet known whether an intermediary species—perhaps pangolins—may have acquired the virus from bats and transmitted it to humans.
  — Dina Fine Maron, National Geographic, 9 June 2020
• By chance, an intermediary dealer sold them to the Green Collection, where Obbink picked them out as yet more Sappho.
  — Ariel Sabar, The Atlantic, 13 May 2020
• An intermediary orisha, Esu serves as the messenger between the priest and Ifa, as the two spirits are close companions to each other.
  — NOLA.com, 1 Sep. 2020
• That's because much of the funds in those accounts get transferred to intermediary accounts that are difficult to follow, the experts said.
  — Laura Romero, ABC News, 23 Feb. 2023
• Austin Cox reached out to the Tribune through an intermediary Tuesday to deliver one-word answers to those questions.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Oct. 2021
• At the center of the trade is China and, allegedly, a few other intermediary countries such as Turkey.
  — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2023
• There is a lot of honey that comes from China or Asia and intermediary countries and get listed as organic. ...
  — Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 27 Sep. 2022
• The fact that friendlessness is on the rise seems to be a function, in part, of the wasting away of these intermediary institutions in civil society.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 30 June 2021
• The bank, which wasn’t named in court filings, ended its involvement with the project after the Turkish company refused to explain the intermediary firm’s role, the SEC said.
  — Dylan Tokar, WSJ, 23 June 2021
• The intermediary fix is the likely path forward and would give the bridge company a 15-year fix to enact a permanent fix later, Moreland said.
  — Chris Mayhew, The Enquirer, 30 June 2021
• That report deemed the virus most likely originated in a bat and was spread to humans through an intermediary animal, and called for a range of new studies.
  — Betsy McKay, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2021
• This fateful event—the transmission of a bat virus, to an intermediary species, to a person—occurred rapidly and recently.
  — Laurie Garrett, The New Republic, 2 Apr. 2020
• If a mammal, such as a mink, can become an intermediary host, the virus can then mutate to pose an even greater risk to other mammals, including humans.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 2 Feb. 2023
• The idea is that the diamond is never out of the company’s control: That means no intermediary cutters or polishers.
  — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 3 Aug. 2023
• Cawthorn’s wallet sends 26.3 ETH to the Coinbase exchange via an intermediary wallet.
  — Danny Nelson, Fortune, 1 June 2022
• Consumers are spoiled with choices in ways to shop and can choose to buy directly from the business or through an intermediary marketplace like GrubHub or even Amazon.
  — Bob Legters, Forbes, 3 June 2022
• The more types of animals that are infected with H5N1, the more opportunities the virus has to jump into humans through an intermediary host.
  — David Faris, The Week, 7 Feb. 2023
• Others say the virus originated in bats, spread to an intermediary animal, and then to humans.
  — Briana Rice, Cincinnati.com, 13 Mar. 2020
• That report identified the most likely cause of the pandemic as a viral leap from a host species to humans via an intermediary animal.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022

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