intervening
Example Sentences
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“How could this take place over the course of five or six hours without anyone intervening or knowing about it?”
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2026
The idea that this satisfied the requirement for an intervening election “appears to be wholly unprecedented.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
The idea is that, eventually, babies will learn to get themselves back to sleep without the parents intervening and, ultimately, that they get better sleep overall.
From Slate • May 3, 2026
Ofsted received more than 100 alerts about concerns without intervening before the homes were closed.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026
In the intervening years, the program had advanced a great deal, but it still got little respect beyond the West Coast.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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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