intervening
Example Sentences
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“How could this take place over the course of five or six hours without anyone intervening or knowing about it?”
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2026
Ofsted received more than 100 alerts about concerns without intervening before the homes were closed.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026
Barely had he unpacked than White was summoned to the foreign ministry for intervening in a case involving Jewish circumcisers in Antwerp -- a probe he called "antisemitic."
From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026
But the government has generally avoided intervening to save a single carrier.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
Although the find was of obvious archaeological importance, the object was so big and heavy that in the intervening eight decades it had never been pulled out of the ground.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing intervening
Franklin D. Roosevelt, "A Date That Will Live In Infamy" (1941)
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Selected Short Stories of H.G. Wells
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The Martian
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