intervene
Example Sentences
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The video cuts to three agents approaching the group before one agent tries to take a young person into custody, prompting at least three demonstrators to try to intervene.
From Los Angeles Times
As the VAR is operating to a higher threshold - clear and obvious - there are times when the KMI Panel will say the referee was wrong but the VAR was correct not to intervene.
From BBC
"The best way to ensure that there will be less people killed in Iran is to intervene sooner," he said.
From BBC
The market monitor, Joseph Bowring, has urged federal regulators to intervene.
“Even if the U.S. doesn’t intervene in Greenland, this whole talk of the town about Greenland already represents a very powerful message to Moscow,” he said.
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