intercession

Constant upkeep and repair can be a kind of life-affirming ritual—an appreciation for how even the best-made machines require the regular intercession of human skill and diligence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

Some online voices suggested that the volunteers should have let him go through with the threat rather than intervene, likening this intercession to an editor’s changing an entry’s tense from is to was.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2025

Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith got their celestial intercession thanks to the “Men In Black” actor’s Oscars night slap of presenter Chris Rock.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2023

After beatification, a miracle attributed to the Ulmas’ intercession would be necessary for their eventual canonization, as the church’s sainthood process is called.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 9, 2023

Adèle, when lifted in, commenced kissing me, by way of expressing her gratitude for my intercession: she was instantly stowed away into a corner on the other side of him.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

His effort to offer enrichment and catch-up work during intercessions got off to a slow start but has become a recurring instructional program.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026

Still, successive administrations in Washington sought to limit his ability to travel to the United States, despite personal intercessions from Putin.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2023

Priests gave intercessions for the big cat’s survival.

From Slate ● Dec. 24, 2022

"I hear loud and clear what he's had to say. Indeed, I'm the recipient of many of these intercessions on this matter," he said.

From BBC ● May 18, 2022

Again he vigorously disputes with Vigilantius who asserts that prayers and intercessions must cease after death.

From The Gospel of the Hereafter by Smyth, J. Paterson (John Paterson)