interception
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Just one week after throwing a backbreaking late interception, Manning missed an open receiver and fumbled the ball away on the Longhorns’ final possession against unranked Florida.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
Information on weak spots in Russia’s aerial defenses has helped Ukraine to guide drones and missiles to avoid interception, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Last season, starting in Week 4, Stafford put together a personal-best streak of eight games without an interception.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
The kingdom's civil defence agency also said "interception debris" had damaged a kindergarten and a medical complex in Riyadh.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
A life of frequent concerns that the next interception may not work, that the trap or the drive will fail, or that the herds will not appear this season.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
Vocabulary lists containing interception
cept, capt, ceive (take, hold, seize)
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cept, capt, ceive (take, hold, seize)
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