intercede
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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
Mr Bennett described the situation as unbearable and called directly on Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Foreign Secretary David Lammy to intercede on their behalf.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2025
As real-life danger threatens the brave young heroes, supernatural forces will intercede in their defense.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2025
He escaped before Dr. Moreau could inoculate him. intercede.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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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
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When a Dallas Morning News political writer asked Paxton why he voted in Collin County, the attorney general shook his head as a campaign aide interceded.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
Instead, the governor interceded and essentially cut Peters’ sentence in half.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
Supporters rushed him and several screamed at him before Doral police interceded and moved him down the street.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 12, 2023
“Other matters interceded; we lost the urgency,” he said, “and so we were going to make sure that never happened again.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 25, 2022
In his sophomore year, though, his evangelical a cappella singing group, a Christian twist on an old Ivy League tradition, interceded.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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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
A photo of the angry throng closing on the Bittons made the papers, but not the story of black residents and a black reporter interceding, Mr. Noel said.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2018
The chief claimed to serve the people by interceding for them with the gods and reciting the ritual formulas required to obtain rain, good harvests, and success in fishing.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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