intervene
Example Sentences
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Nato did not intervene but its most powerful member the US was able to help mediate.
From BBC
“But if the U.S. gets bogged down in a Latin American mess, then the appetite and capacity to intervene in other parts of the world will diminish,” she said.
The police said the crime took place on the intervening night of 29th and 30th December.
From BBC
"The protein actively intervenes in key metabolic and growth signaling pathways, thereby linking two fundamental cancer mechanisms."
From Science Daily
In the following decades the U.S. regularly intervened in the region.
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