multistep
adjective
mul·ti·step
ˌməl-tē-ˈstep 
-ˌtī-
: involving two or more distinct steps or stages
the first step in a multistep process
a multistep strategy/approach
Play strategy games like chess and Monopoly often, recommends Suzanne Farmer … . They're great practice for making decisions and thinking through multistep problems …—
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Billings and her class took their naming idea to the city of San Diego and initiated a multistep process to garner interest.
—Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2025
The council’s nomination is part of a multistep process to get approval from the Texas Film Commission to waive state and local sales taxes related to the construction of the 224,000 square foot building.
—Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 May 2025
This speed differential enables entirely new categories of applications that require minimal latency, including real-time conversational agents, interactive code generation and rapid multistep reasoning processes.
—Janakiram Msv, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
Other verifiers might guide a model through each juncture of a multistep problem.
—Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2025
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Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2025
The council’s nomination is part of a multistep process to get approval from the Texas Film Commission to waive state and local sales taxes related to the construction of the 224,000 square foot building.
—Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 May 2025
This speed differential enables entirely new categories of applications that require minimal latency, including real-time conversational agents, interactive code generation and rapid multistep reasoning processes.
—Janakiram Msv, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
Other verifiers might guide a model through each juncture of a multistep problem.
—Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2025
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“Multistep.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/multistep. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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