intermediate
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He would hold them for around three months, for the intermediate stage in their lives called backgrounding, because the animals build up health and immunity before being sold again to feedlots for final fattening.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026
At the state track and field championships, Jayden Rendon of Carson was in the lead of the 300 intermediate hurdles on Saturday when he struck the final hurdle and fell to the ground.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026
Norris, who had started the race on intermediate tyres, pitted on lap two, leaving Antonelli initially leading a five-car train of Russell, Hamilton's Ferrari, Verstappen and the second Ferrari of Charles Leclerc.
From BBC • May 24, 2026
Their analysis revealed another unstable stage in the process, a single ring-slipped intermediate that forms from the doubly ring-slipped structure.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2026
One transformation involves a change of intermediate vector: when a microbe relying on some arthropod vector for transmission switches to a new host, the microbe may be forced to find a new arthropod as well.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing intermediate
Power Prefix: inter-
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Four Power Prefixes: anti-, con-, inter-, and uni-.
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