How to Use multistep in a Sentence

multistep

adjective
  • The norm was what’s known as a multistep deal: studios paid up front for ideas, then scripts, then rewrites.
    Daniel Bessner, Harper's Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
  • To try to obtain footage, the board had to navigate a baroque multistep process.
    Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The silhouette which arrives in yellow, white, and a splashy aqua blue tone is a multistep transformation of the soccer cleat.
    Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 26 Apr. 2024
  • But at the time, its responses tended to max out at a few paragraphs, so generating a full-length essay would be a multistep process.
    Christopher Beam, WIRED, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The measure, unique to the state, allows law enforcement to begin a multistep process to restrict a dangerous person’s access to guns.
    Melissa Chan, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Collectors like Robey knew that any multistep printing process was prone to human error.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
  • There's a multistep process to determine eligibility here as well, one that runs too many pages in the draft IRS guidance.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 31 Mar. 2023
  • To use the meal kit example: On a stressful day, a quick and convenient dinner might be a more authentic form of self-care than a multistep recipe that eats away at your evening unwind time.
    Julia Ries, SELF, 14 Mar. 2023
  • This personalized emergency shortcut sets off a multistep chain of alerts with just one tap.
    Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The program would: * Speed up the approval of point-of-care diagnostic tests, allowing patients to be screened and begin treatment in a single visit, rather than the current multistep process.
    Michelle Andrews, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The system collects water from rain, cooling towers, showers, toilets, and sinks, then circulates it through a multistep treatment process in the basement.
    WIRED, 17 June 2023
  • Customer success professionals describe a multistep process of helping customers succeed in their careers through the use of your products and your support.
    Wayne McCulloch, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Traditionally drug products are made in large batches through a multistep process with different parts dispersed among many locations across the globe.
    Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2021
  • The best at-home chemical peels From highly effective multistep treatments to easy-to-use products crafted by professionals, there is truly an acid out there for every skin type.
    Jamie Wilson, Glamour, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Epic used a multistep process to identify patients reporting new symptoms.
    Amy Goldstein, Dan Keating, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Mar. 2023
  • This was always an annoying multistep process, usually involving batches and the whole problem of getting the contents of a Dutch oven into my blender by ladle and measuring cup.
    Becky Krystal, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The union already had suspended its on-the-ground campaigning on behalf of Al-Alim, but was required to follow a multistep process, which lasted about two weeks, to officially retract the endorsement.
    Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
  • But the Virginia High School League, which oversees school sports in the state, still lets transgender student-athletes participate on sports teams that match their gender identity after a multistep appeal process.
    Emily Guskin, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Each simply describes a multistep routine: After cleansing, layer on your goodies from lightest to heaviest.
    Emily Dougherty, Town & Country, 1 May 2023
  • The Safe Drinking Water Act, designed to protect the nation’s water quality, requires an extensive, multistep process before adopting new standards.
    Agnel Philip, ProPublica, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The department’s contractors required a multistep approval process to approve follow-up examinations and were responsible for the cost of specialty consultations, according to the lawsuit.
    Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The math assessment analyzes students’ ability to classify angle measurements, use ratios, apply the Pythagorean theorem, and solve multistep equations, among other skills.
    Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Apr. 2023
  • At the moment, that’s predominantly manipulation tasks that aren’t well structured—for example, getting multiple objects to interact with each other, handling things that are difficult to model (like fabrics), or extended multistep tasks.
    IEEE Spectrum, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The pandemic also illuminated just how much U.S. companies depend on China in the multistep manufacturing processes that bring products to consumers, including items crucial for national security and for the transition to green energy.
    Shannon K. O’Neil, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024

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