How to Use intermediation in a Sentence

intermediation

noun
  • Courage and the power of intermediation and advisors and how that can help navigate and make this all work.
    — The Sorenson Impact Center, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • But that was Baghramian’s choice, so the works can be seen and pondered without intermediation.
    — Dallas News, 14 Nov. 2022
  • There also is intermediation of risk.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Equities took a bigger hit, though the drop was driven by intermediation trading rather than financing.
    — Telis Demos, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2022
  • But one thing that seems to be emerging is a proliferation of intermediation and b2b services.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2012
  • This intermediation would also put pressure on banks to pay higher interest rates to depositors.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2018
  • Rare is the business that grows by intermediating what is rendered worthless by the intermediation.
    — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • The strong result reflects 15% growth in intermediation revenue and 7% growth in financing.
    — CNBC, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The same information problems appear in all other financial intermediation, stock and bond markets, mutual funds and the rest.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 7 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • The report highlights the growing shift toward peer-to-peer and machine-to-machine payment transactions, which makes bank intermediation less relevant and, at times, a hindrance.
    — Jon Helgi Egilsson, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This will improve financial intermediation and buttress economic growth.
    — Derek Scissors, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2016
  • The first movers who successfully bridge this gap – building compliant, scalable intermediation platforms for standalone brokers – could capture substantial value in what remains a large market.
    — Boaz Sobrado, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • The plan includes more space for private businesses, imports and exports without state intermediation, free hiring of personnel, authorization for private banks and investment by Cubans abroad.
    — ABC News, 19 June 2026
  • The plan includes more space for private businesses, imports and exports without state intermediation, free hiring of personnel, authorization for private banks and investment by Cubans abroad.
    — Andrea Rodríguez, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Positions in the category include work in insurance, investments and credit intermediation.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Tax savings are often channeled to investment through financial intermediation, stimulating the economy.
    — Julio Gonzalez, Forbes, 18 May 2021
  • These businesses provide financial intermediation for households and businesses and other financial services.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 24 Aug. 2025
  • 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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