intervention
Example Sentences
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"It's as if an outsider were involved in our family issues," complained a resident of northern Lashio city, once the rebels' biggest war prize but returned to the junta via Beijing's intervention in April.
From Barron's
An experimental drug developed at Northwestern University has demonstrated further promise as an early intervention for Alzheimer's disease.
From Science Daily
He fought in Chechnya and in a brief war in North Ossetia in the 1990s, and later took part in Russia’s military intervention in Syria.
“There seems little chance of substantial interventions to contain the continued decline in property sales and prices,” they wrote in a note.
Maybe divine intervention wouldn’t be such a bad thing if utter subservience to billionaires, technology and manufactured loneliness is the alternative.
From Salon
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