intercede

On Monday, she met with Pope Leo in Rome and asked him “to intercede for all Venezuelans who remain kidnapped and disappeared.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 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

Mary Rommely came over to intercede for Sissy.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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

"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

Whether or not you are religious, there is comfort in the idea of a higher power, a force beyond the mundane that organizes and intercedes in your life as it unfolds.

From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2022

I hear my name and see Ayesha waving at me before her mother intercedes and makes her drop her hands to her sides.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

Legends surrounding St. Nicholas’ generosity appear in texts ranging from medieval manuscripts to modern-day poems, including how he interceded on behalf of wrongly condemned prisoners and miraculously saved sailors from storms.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

Some witnesses told police that the suspect was a good Samaritan who interceded when the man who was killed assaulted a woman, according to KTLA-TV.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2023

While Burr's powerful friends subsequently interceded and persuaded state officials to drop the charges, their success had nothing to do with any immunity that Burr enjoyed as an executive officer of the United States.

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2023

When an Israeli reporter recently asked Mastriano about his ties to Gab and his comments about his opponent, the candidate’s wife interceded.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 2022

In her case, the government official interceded, and she survived.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

In that event, Verrastro foresees an international coalition, including China and Japan, interceding in the Persian Gulf region to secure the vast amounts of petroleum and natural gas that are vital to their survival.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2019

Aged about twelve, she may have protected Smith, but not, as he wrote, by interceding when he was a captive and about to be executed in 1607.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann