intervene
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Prevent was set up 20 years ago to try to identify future potential terrorists and intervene in their lives, often by challenging hateful ideologies such as far right extremism or support for jihadist violence.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
He also contended it is too late for judges to intervene.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Japan normally sells some of its huge pile of Treasury debt to intervene.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Meanwhile, county officials have stepped back — for now — from earlier threats to intervene and possibly force more immediate budget cuts upon the nation’s second-largest school system.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
“What is this?” said frozen Mr. Flux, unable to intervene.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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Saroj is now demanding the government urgently intervenes and close HMP Pentonville down.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
"When one country intervenes in the decisions of another country, freedom dies," Petro wrote Tuesday in response to Trump's endorsement.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
We can see Houghton’s play in these moments, but then Alloway’s cheeky pop sensibility intervenes, the arch artificiality and ironic tone draining the emotional impact.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
But it suggested that Beijing views an amphibious assault on Taiwan as risky and likely to fail, particularly if the U.S. intervenes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
“Vegetables are good for you; your mother says so too. Have some more,” she insists, until Father intervenes and upholds my right to refuse a dish I don’t like.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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This will include a referee's description of why they have given a decision, or the VAR's direct reasoning for why they have not intervened.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Burnley got into trouble while attending another high school when Marsh intervened to get him another chance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
"This is extremely important to the PM and he has personally intervened to ensure everything possible is being done so that vile groomers are dealt with in the way their victims deserve."
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Japan and the United States intervened jointly in financial markets last week, buying yen for the first time since the Asian financial crisis in 1998.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
It was time to get Seabiscuit into a prep race, but something always intervened.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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So what did he do during the intervening six months?
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
The question is whether we can last the intervening two and a half years.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
In the intervening years, however, a cottage industry of compounding pharmacies emerged, including Ro and Hims & Hers Health.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
But divine entities stopped intervening in man’s affairs long ago; besides, I had the answer drawn and nocked since I’d walked out of the theater days before.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
The image is read by the Voyager computers, radioed back across the immense intervening distance of half a billion kilometers to a radio telescope, a ground station on the Earth.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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