intervention
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This is a necessary intervention: according to Savage, many DJs have gotten lazy, and electronic dance music is a boys club that’s difficult for trans and cisgender women to break into.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Money has been poured into startups focused on daily monitoring, early detection, diagnostics, and intervention.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
Senior Buddhist leaders, the Mahanayake Theros of the Ramanna Nikaya and the Amarapura Maha Nikaya, together with Hindu religious leaders, handed over a memorandum to the Presidential Secretariat calling for urgent state intervention.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
She said they had gone to see “Schindler’s List” and the Dallas Holocaust museum: “It was divine intervention that she was brought into my life,” she said in an interview.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
It was, I realize now, something of an intervention, an attempt to show me which small parts of this process I could control.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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Another long-term goal of UC Riverside researchers is to understand the ecological role and impact of the donkey herd, which can also help inform whether population control or other interventions are needed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
"Last-minute emergency interventions run the risk of being badly targeted and costing us all more," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Japan did not conduct any foreign-exchange market interventions between August 27 and September 28, according to Ministry of Finance data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
To test whether stronger circadian rhythms could improve recovery, the researchers examined several interventions known to affect the body's internal clock.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 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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Vocabulary lists containing intervention
Freak the Mighty
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
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"The Perils of Indifference," Vocabulary from the speech
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