interpose
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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
Over the weekend, he hastened to testify to the Justice Department inspector general and the Senate Judiciary Committee before Trump could seek to interpose assertions of executive privilege.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 8, 2021
According to longstanding judicial precedent, Congress must clearly articulate its intent to interpose itself between a state and its political subdivisions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2016
Immediately, her mother and sister were there to interpose a blander timetable.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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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
Such a person interposes between himself and reality nothing less than a labyrinth of attitudes.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
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“I’m not a Nikki fan and I’m not a Pelosi fan and when I purposely interposed names they said, ‘He didn’t know Pelosi from Nikki, from Tricky Nikki,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 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
Thao interposed himself between Floyd and bystanders, video showed, looking on as he struggled.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2020
“How well you read me, you witch!” interposed Mr. Rochester: “but what did you find in the veil besides its embroidery? Did you find poison, or a dagger, that you look so mournful now?”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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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
I was doing depositions last week and we’re interposing and everybody’s really nasty, and then we’re off the record and we’re like, “Does anybody want salads? Do you want a veggie burger?”
From Slate ● Dec. 6, 2019
They would have to be available both for peacekeeping duties and to underpin preventive diplomacy by interposing themselves between potential adversaries.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 16, 2016
Michael moved in front of the machine, interposing himself between Octavian and the two Greek demigods.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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