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intervene

[in-ter-veen] / ˌɪn tərˈvin /




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Isabel Wang explained how governments’ efforts to intervene and prop up currencies or hold down interest rates might have the opposite effect.

From MarketWatch Sep. 4, 2026

Wayve later told me it was the driver's decision to intervene and they were confident their AI system would have handled it.

From BBC Sep. 2, 2026

"The only real life-saving treatment option once a patient reaches the liver failure stage in those diseases is transplantation. But if we understood why these livers were failing, maybe we could intervene."

From Science Daily Aug. 31, 2026

Within a week of Minnesota’s filing suit against Texas, the DOJ began to intervene.

From Slate Aug. 28, 2026

Keep an eye on her then, but don’t intervene unless you have to.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

“Real life intervenes for Kayce. Unfortunately it happens to so many of us.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 1, 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

At several points, Ratner intervenes to prod Trump into sharing more about herself.

From BBC Jan. 30, 2026

He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

The national debt crossed $40 trillion the same week Treasury intervened.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

Huckabee said Israel had intervened at the request of the United States, its crucial ally.

From Barron's Aug. 13, 2026

Burnley got into trouble while attending another high school when Marsh intervened to get him another chance.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

"This is extremely important to the PM and he has personally intervened to ensure everything possible is being done so that vile groomers are dealt with in the way their victims deserve."

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

Greasy Sae had intervened and sent us with our deer to the butcher, but not before it'd been badly damaged, hunks of meat taken, the hide riddled with holes.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

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

Westminster Magistrates' Court heard how Wilby spoke to Creasy about knife crime and her "failings as a Member of Parliament" before filming her, leading to members of the public intervening.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

The question is whether we can last the intervening two and a half years.

From Slate Aug. 10, 2026

Colonel Edmund Rice, chief of the exposition’s Columbian Guard, described what it was like to stand in a shaded wood at Gettysburg as Pickett launched his men across the intervening field.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson




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