Examples of “mediate” in a Sentence

verb To help two opposing sides reach an agreement by acting as a neutral go-between.

• A counselor was hired to mediate between the tenants and their landlord.
• A retired judge was brought in to mediate the dispute between the two companies.
• Their friend tried to mediate after the brothers stopped speaking to each other.

adj Acting through an intermediate step or agent rather than directly.

• Scientists described the mediate link between the drought and the higher bread prices.
• His knowledge of the event was only mediate, since it came through other people's letters.
• The effect was mediate rather than immediate, working through several intervening causes.