mediate
verb (used with object)
to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
were mediating
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past progressiveof mediate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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A few violence interrupters were mediating between the gangs' leaders, while the rest worked the crowd, calming people down.
From New York Times ● Dec. 25, 2012
While we were mediating in Berlin the Russian armies appeared on our long and almost entirely open frontier.
From What Germany Thinks The War as Germans see it by Thomas F. A. Smith
