interpose

Critics mocked the former president online, with some leaping to point out that he also incorrectly used "interpose" in his excuse.

From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2024

But those who try to interpose the regime in the most personal aspects of people’s lives, including the choice of what to wear, run different kinds of risks.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2022

“Courts should police carefully against attempts to use such challenges as tools to interpose unjustified delay,” Justice Gorsuch wrote.

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2019

Washington’s diplomatic goal, although it hasn’t been stated publicly this way, is to encourage China to interpose itself between the United States and North Korea and organize negotiations to de-nuclearize the Korean Peninsula.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 8, 2017

The kindly inspector with the granite face must have thought he had been indulgent enough, for he stepped forward to brush away Cecilia’s hand and interpose himself.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

As Rachel interposes herself in the police investigation, befriending Scott and antagonizing Tom, the movie adeptly guides viewers to all the wrong conclusions.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2016

BST21:03 Fiorina interposes a discourse on Iran policy.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 16, 2015

There’s an awkward pause, and the friend apologetically interposes, “He doesn’t mean homosexual, Uncle Ben.”

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2014

A few days later, the examining judge replied: “Dear Sir,—The court interposes no objection to your going to Mexico.”

From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2013

An instant of self-indulgence—like a phantom that interposes itself between lovers to feel what it is to be alive.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

"When I purposely interposed names, they said I didn't know Pelosi from Nikki," Trump said at a rally in South Carolina last month, making another gaffe.

From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2024

Such a note, seemingly interposed at random, echoes Whitman and DeFeo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2023

Then a newsreel begins to play - it shows a montage of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah, interposed with scenes of violence that marked the partition.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2022

In the nearby township of Daveyton, even while openly defying the government’s ban on political funerals, Tutu interposed himself between Black mourners and hundreds of heavily armed soldiers to prevent a violent confrontation.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 26, 2021

The shell was interesting and pretty and a worthy plaything; but the vivid phantoms of his day-dream still interposed between him and Piggy, who in this context was an irrelevance.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

This device is so effective, in fact, that Kijak borrows it wholesale, repeatedly interposing these moments of gay serendipity, many of them identical to those in “Home Movies.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2023

The message was encoded by mechanically interposing or not interposing a three-inch block of brass in the muon beam every time a 12-billion-electron-volt synchrotron at the Argonne National Laboratory emitted a short burst of particles.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 1, 2022

White southerners began publishing books that would introduce into the classroom values that they held dear, interposing lessons deemed appropriate for a slave society into elementary reading and spelling books.

From Slate ● Dec. 8, 2017

But others worry about a machine interposing between parent and child.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 22, 2016

Mama asked, interposing herself between me and Dad.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers