intervening
Example Sentences
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The justice minister praised the "brave people who disarmed the attacker", referring to a group of people who can be seen intervening in a video of the incident circulated online.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
This is despite her insistence that her values haven’t changed in the intervening years.
From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026
However, the results suggest that intervening before the disease appears can meaningfully alter its course, potentially reducing the number of years people spend living with symptoms and related complications.
From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026
Thus, governments oscillate between ignoring developments that are moving too fast to process and aggressively intervening when scary risks appear.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
Hateful was the look he fixed on Ged across the dark intervening air.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Vocabulary lists containing intervening
Franklin D. Roosevelt, "A Date That Will Live In Infamy" (1941)
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Selected Short Stories of H.G. Wells
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The Martian
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