intervene

After the yen weakened to 40-year lows against the dollar in late July, Tokyo and Washington joined forces to intervene in the foreign-exchange market to prop up the yen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

It can lead to a power struggle over how much to intervene and, for example, whether a parent should or should not enter nursing-home care.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

Constitution, though, allows states to establish the rules, and federal courts can’t intervene, unless there’s a federal law at issue, such as the Voting Rights Act or the U.S.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

There were several "missed opportunities" for hospital bosses to intervene, the report said, including when three babies died in one cluster in June 2015.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

Ron looked around as though hoping somebody else would intervene, but nobody spoke.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

The Bank of Japan intervenes in the market under the instruction of the ministry to ease economic damage from sharp fluctuations in exchange rates.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

Saroj is now demanding the government urgently intervenes and close HMP Pentonville down.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

We can see Houghton’s play in these moments, but then Alloway’s cheeky pop sensibility intervenes, the arch artificiality and ironic tone draining the emotional impact.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

One-third of the nation’s coal fleet plans to retire over the next five years, unless someone intervenes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026

Aunt Melissa intervenes, planting her body firmly between us and the agents.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

It said its foreign ministry made dozens of calls to nudge peace along, and that President Xi Jinping himself had intervened with suggestions to end the fighting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

I believe Mr. Bessent intervened to keep the party going.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

In August, Tokyo and Washington confirmed that they had jointly intervened to halt a slide in the yen after it fell to a fresh 40-year low.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

In 2017, Kremlev took over the Russian Boxing Federation, after Rubezhnoi personally intervened to put him at the helm.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

Ordinarily this would have been so—if the summer, the gypsy days, had not intervened.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

On the intervening night of 8 and 9 June, Satish Salian was called by the police to a hospital where he learnt that his only child was dead.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

FTC officials say Amazon has secretly inflated the minimum prices required to win ad placements, intervening in auctions to raise the price 70% to 80% of the time.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

CIF membership has been cautious about intervening or limiting transfer opportunities for fear politicians in Sacramento might get involved.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

Those have included intervening in the currency markets to support the Japanese yen, a move that could in turn reduce pressure on Japan’s government to sell U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

And no one is tempted to say Would you like paper or conveniently? because they can mentally block out the intervening paper and or, whereupon the clash between like and conveniently becomes just as blatant.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker