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intervention

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


NOUN
armed interference
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His Howick jacket - the one he wore when making his angry intervention in the Covid lockdown debates - has become an exhibit in Manchester's People's History Museum.

From BBC Jul. 19, 2026

One year after the intervention ended, both the early and late fasting groups had maintained significantly more weight loss than participants who continued eating across 12 hours or more each day.

From Science Daily Jul. 18, 2026

Platforms are required to deploy systems to recognise extreme emotions and to implement crisis intervention mechanisms.

From Barron's Jul. 15, 2026

The announcement triggered a multiyear public battle between the directors and Unilever and the intervention of an activist shareholder.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

Because he had not previously had a lawyer who would see him or speak to him, Mr. Dill saw our intervention as something of a miracle.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

Holding her camera and notebook, archaeologist Micheline Kurdi walked through the ruins to document the site's state and plan the first "quick interventions" to restore it, she told AFP.

From Barron's Jul. 20, 2026

The known and suspected harms of these interventions include infertility, sexual dysfunction, cognitive impairment, cardiovascular disease, bone health problems and cancer.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

"That has real implications for how we design prevention strategies and interventions, because some things are more consistent across places than we might expect."

From Science Daily Jul. 13, 2026

He cited previous interventions at Plémont, external and Grève de Lecq as examples where this has been done successfully.

From BBC Jul. 6, 2026

Radical genetic interventions could only be imagined in radically egalitarian societies.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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