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

Immediately, her mother and sister were there to interpose a blander timetable.

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

Such a person interposes between himself and reality nothing less than a labyrinth of attitudes.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin

“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

On another occasion, Bishop Tutu interposed himself between protesters and police, producing an image of one diminutive priest standing firm against the armed might of the apartheid security machine.

From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2021

“Drat that boy,” interposed my sister, frowning at me over her work, “what a questioner he is. Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

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

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

From The Guardian ● Sep. 22, 2016

And during the recombination of DNA, the strategy of interposing base against base is deployed yet again to restore damaged DNA.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee