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intervention

[in-ter-ven-shuhn] / ˌɪn tərˈvɛn ʃən /


NOUN
armed interference
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One can reasonably hold that the risks of a largely unregulated AI arms race are significant and worthy of governmental intervention.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

An adult grows so close to their favorite chatbot that their partner is forced to consider either staging an intervention or breaking things off entirely.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

“Real Housewives of New Jersey” star Teresa Giudice is asking for privacy for her daughter Milania Guidice after an incident at the airport resulted in police intervention.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

Ferrari team principal Frederic Vasseur made his views about Horner's intervention pretty plain after the Azerbaijan Grand Prix when he said: "Mr Horner is looking for a job - that, everybody knows - everywhere."

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

With my mother and little sisters across the Atlantic and my father somewhere beneath it, Mrs. Brenner had declared her intervention a mitzvah, a commandment of God.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Soon, I’ll head to Mayrlife, a medical clinic in the Austrian Alps, which just launched a “Meno Classic” program with customized dietary interventions and treatments for women.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

During the project, the trust said it would work with landowners to trial "small-scale habitat interventions" to identify those which work well while gaining a better understanding of the species' behaviour and needs.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

So far, neither of the interventions into the Treasury market — which is valued at more than $30 trillion — have moved the needle.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

Instead of tinkering with these interventions, which are likely to create further problems and another layer of interventions, we should deal with the fundamental problem.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

But within barely a decade, the Klan had been extinguished, largely by legal and military interventions out of Washington, D.C.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt




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