How to Use intermediation in a Sentence
intermediation
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Perhaps Omni’s new model will introduce some neighbors to local shops, but the intermediation of an app might change the timbre of the relationship.
—Simone Stolzoff, SFChronicle.com, 21 June 2019
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As a result of intermediation from the Catholic Church, the Panamanian government has agreed to try to resolve the Cuban migrant issue beyond detention.
—Mario J. Pentón, miamiherald, 18 June 2017
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Put another way, has Germany’s largest bank really freed itself from its toxic past and found a way to live in a milk-and-water world of low interest rates and dull-but-worthy credit intermediation?
—Geoffrey Smith, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2020
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Equities took a bigger hit, though the drop was driven by intermediation trading rather than financing.
—Telis Demos, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2022
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Kuroda said Thursday that financial intermediation hasn’t been impaired in Japan and that talk about the theory doesn’t indicate any need for policy change.
—Bloomberg.com, 21 Dec. 2017
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These centres boost cross-border trade and financial intermediation and play a critical part in facilitating growth around the world.
—The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
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Social tokens and NFTs have allowed creators and brands to avoid the costs and intermediation of platforms and empower artists to directly interact with their community.
—Roger Lee, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
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Helping drive this is a shift of revenue within trading from financing—lending to clients to boost their returns—to intermediation, or pairing up buyers and sellers, which uses less capital.
—Telis Demos, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2020
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With this digital intermediation, one wonders: what happens to brand loyalty in the digital age?
—Bob Legters, Forbes, 3 June 2022
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America’s banks play a crucial role in global financial intermediation, helping to propagate changes in sentiment around the world.
—The Economist, 14 June 2018
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Most financial activity job losses were in credit intermediation (lending and related services) and real estate, which has been hard hit by declining home prices throughout the county and dropping rents in the city of San Diego and Chula Vista.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Nov. 2022
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This intermediation would also put pressure on banks to pay higher interest rates to depositors.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2018
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Even those who assert the need for regulation and some intermediation between genomic results and the patient/consumer are unhappy with the way the government and some pro-regulation activists have been approaching the matter.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2011
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Google extracts approximately 40% of the total ad spend through its intermediation services, part of which would otherwise go to publishers and advertisers.
—Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 19 May 2020
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Giving farmers a choice of customers will likely lower intermediation costs and make investment in agriculture more attractive to private businesses.
—Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2020
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The 20th century saw the rise of intermediation: centralized media systems run by corporations and governments.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 22 May 2017
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The authors propose some modest solutions, all of which boil down to less reliance on technological intermediation and better television analysis of what fans at home are actually seeing.
—Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2017
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Safe Ride Support system (an intermediation tool) tracks each ride in real time, detecting unsafe driving behavior and proactively addressing any issues.
—Matt Williams, Fortune, 4 May 2021
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Kindleberger observed that the U.S. financial system was providing an important financial intermediation service to the world.
—David Beckworth, National Review, 22 Aug. 2019
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Time and again, financial innovation has given rise to types of financial intermediation that operate outside the regulatory framework, often bringing lower costs, better services, or more choice.
—Timothy Massad, Fortune, 15 July 2019
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Positions in the category include work in insurance, investments and credit intermediation.
—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2021
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Tax savings are often channeled to investment through financial intermediation, stimulating the economy.
—Julio Gonzalez, Forbes, 18 May 2021
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Given their multiplicity of issues (e.g., quality of partners, manned last mile, personal security), gig economy platforms leverage the highest number of tools, usually relying on access, conduct, transparency, and intermediation.
—Matt Williams, Fortune, 4 May 2021
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