How to Use intermediary in a Sentence

intermediary

1 of 2 noun
  • He served as an intermediary between the workers and the executives.
  • The first is that of the neutral, third-party intermediary.
    — Serge Lucio, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Her sister acted as intermediary and set up a date for the two to attend a Browns game.
    — cleveland, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Pakistan, which deserves praise for stepping in, picked up on this and offered to serve as an intermediary.
    — Donald Heflin, The Conversation, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Iran has denied that there are talks, but there do appear to be messages exchanged through intermediaries.
    — ABC News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The risk is the intermediaries — the financiers, the studio.
    — Jack Dunn, Variety, 27 June 2026
  • These services act as intermediaries, making the scam harder to trace.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Large transactions often pass through murky intermediaries, and the vetting of them is opaque.
    — Vivian Wang, New York Times, 29 May 2023
  • An investor can be legally clear to trade in Syria and still be one intermediary away from a sanctioned name.
    — Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Tehran has played down the prospect of talks or that any breakthrough was imminent as Pakistan acts as an intermediary.
    — Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Without those intermediaries, creatives need to create their own stages.
    — Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 22 May 2026
  • Agents saw the driver hand cash to the intermediary, who wasn’t identified in the affidavit.
    — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Yet the opposition dossiers from Musk intermediaries spin it as a line of attack.
    — Ronan Farrow, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Epstein spent a decade building a network of intermediaries to get closer to Gates.
    — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • At the time of publication the response had not yet been received by intermediaries.
    — CBS News, 28 Mar. 2026
  • At the time of publication the response had not yet been received by intermediaries.
    — Jennifer Jacobs, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Of course, this isn't to say that all, or even most, financial intermediaries are inherently bad.
    — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Paul and Mortensen continue to co-parent through an intermediary, the source close to Paul said.
    — Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Should the village, the film then asks, reinstate an intermediary or find another way?
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The same platforms still control the data, and the same intermediaries still stand between insight and action.
    — Ivan Guzenko, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • Publishers need to understand how usage is measured, how prices are set, and what role intermediaries play.
    — Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Stocks are purchased and sold on stock exchanges, which act as the intermediary between investors and companies.
    — Ivana Pino, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Here was a platform that allowed users to buy and sell cryptocurrencies without the help of intermediaries, like a bank or a broker.
    — Annabelle Huang, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
  • This could have the ability for payments to skip several intermediaries meaning money can be moved faster across the world.
    — Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 14 Nov. 2025
  • The family could also send the money through an intermediary.
    — Carlos Garcia, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Nevares also alleges that Salzman used an intermediary to threaten her against speaking in court.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2022
  • 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

intermediary

2 of 2 adjective
  • The forksheet may be an intermediary step on the way.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 25 May 2023
  • The forksheet may be an intermediary step on the way.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 May 2023
  • This has left no intermediary step to guide the transition.
    — Essence, 4 Aug. 2025
  • How does the studio itself relate to that idea, as an intermediary force?
    — Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The message came to her through an intermediary spirit named Amaliel.
    — Alice Gregory, New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2025
  • Turns out an intermediary bank that had worked with Wells Fargo had the money.
    — Christopher Elliott, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Setting intermediary process goals along the way can help, Gagliardi says.
    — Sarah Digiulio, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2019
  • The report said that the virus was most likely spread to humans from bats via an intermediary animal.
    — Fortune, 1 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
  • 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
  • This step can also serve as an intermediary one before needing to become estranged.
    — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 21 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • There were so many intermediary solutions between not doing anything and launching a large-scale war.
    — Cullen Murphy, The Hive, 25 Jan. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • Others say the virus originated in bats, spread to an intermediary animal, and then to humans.
    — Briana Rice, Cincinnati.com, 13 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This intermediary step gives you more opportunities to convince them to shift from an advisory role to a full-time team member.
    — Arseniy Olkhovskiy, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • That can reduce certain intermediary risks.
    — Sean Lee, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • 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
  • Creative executives now report directly to him, a change that led to the ouster of many executives who once held these intermediary roles.
    — Joe Flint, WSJ, 18 May 2022
  • This allows consumers to transfer funds quickly without extra intermediary or exchange fees.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • One hypothesis is that the intermediary animal for this new virus may be a pangolin, a small mammal sold in wildlife markets, prized for its meat and scales covering its body.
    — Talal Ansari, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2020
  • At the center of the trade is China and, allegedly, a few other intermediary countries such as Turkey.
    — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Jim Foster was kind enough to play intermediary and later invited me to my first real tailgate, in Chicago on my birthday.
    — Mike Bass, The Enquirer, 24 Dec. 2021
  • Gratifyingly, nothing about this adaptation has the air of an intermediary stop.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2026

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