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intervention

[in-ter-ven-shuhn] / ˌɪn tərˈvɛn ʃən /


NOUN
armed interference
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“The Brotherhood Crusade has been working with the City of Los Angeles for many years on gang intervention and youth support initiatives,” Stack said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

Bessent, in announcing his intervention in the Treasury market last month, said the so-called hyperscalers of the AI build-out “don’t really care what they are paying.”

From MarketWatch Sep. 3, 2026

Investor concerns about potential intervention may also be heightened given the Labor Day holiday in the U.S. on Monday, when foreign-exchange intervention could have an outsized impact given thin trading volumes.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

Investors are keeping tabs on Tokyo after a spike in the Japanese yen stoked speculation of more intervention by authorities.

From Barron's Sep. 3, 2026

Cal braced himself for intervention but none came.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

The first part of the review will look at the "support, interventions and protections" available to Arday in the period before his death.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

“The yen interventions are just stopgap measures,” said Eric Wallerstein, chief market strategist at Clocktower Group.

From MarketWatch Sep. 4, 2026

To truly maintain these hardcore interventions, you need to do them again and again—a face-lift, for example, lasts only 10 or so years.

From Slate Sep. 2, 2026

Bleiker now applies the findings to the development of curriculum interventions and early mathematics programs.

From Science Daily Aug. 28, 2026

Radical genetic interventions could only be imagined in radically egalitarian societies.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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