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intercede

[in-ter-seed] / ˌɪn tərˈsid /


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That is setting up a debate over when military forces should use AI, when humans should intercede and who should decide where to draw the lines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

This is now the third time in a matter of weeks this Court has had to intercede in a case squarely controlled by one of its precedents.

From Slate ● Jan. 3, 2026

When special envoy Keith Kellogg travelled to Minsk to intercede for American citizens in prison, he emerged with Sergei, too.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2025

As real-life danger threatens the brave young heroes, supernatural forces will intercede in their defense.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2025

If only these wooden figures could spring to life and intercede for me!

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

The new mission of the Slatest is to explain the biggest story of the day, but sometimes the story of the year intercedes.

From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026

"Where this work intercedes is thinking about how to inject something beforehand that would help boost or enhance the amount of signal that is available to collect in the same small sample."

From Science Daily ● Jan. 18, 2024

In the case of a total lunar eclipse, the Earth intercedes between the sun and the moon.

From Washington Post ● May 11, 2022

"The longer that talks go on, the greater the chance that the conflict intercedes," said Henry Rome, Iran analyst at consultancy Eurasia.

From Reuters ● Mar. 1, 2022

But when he said, “We will now pray to the spirit in our own words, for the spirit intercedes for us in accordance with His will,” the silence was broken.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

When a Dallas Morning News political writer asked Paxton why he voted in Collin County, the attorney general shook his head as a campaign aide interceded.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026

Instead, the governor interceded and essentially cut Peters’ sentence in half.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026

Supporters rushed him and several screamed at him before Doral police interceded and moved him down the street.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 12, 2023

“Other matters interceded; we lost the urgency,” he said, “and so we were going to make sure that never happened again.”

From Washington Post ● Jun. 25, 2022

In his sophomore year, though, his evangelical a cappella singing group, a Christian twist on an old Ivy League tradition, interceded.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

Dodie Osteen said interceding for those in need is a fulfilling ministry.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 19, 2023

The cornerstone of the college’s mental health initiative is interceding and introducing students to services early as well as approaching students directly instead of hoping they reach out themselves.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2022

One recruiting pipeline has consistently filled some of our hardest and most important jobs during the interceding generations: new military members mostly come from military families.

From Salon ● Nov. 11, 2021

The events that fill the interceding days — her mother’s premature death, friendships, graduations, marriage, vacations, a quiet career, late-life illnesses — could be called “ordinary.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2020

The chief claimed to serve the people by interceding for them with the gods and reciting the ritual formulas required to obtain rain, good harvests, and success in fishing.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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