intercession

Constant upkeep and repair can be a kind of life-affirming ritual—an appreciation for how even the best-made machines require the regular intercession of human skill and diligence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

Some online voices suggested that the volunteers should have let him go through with the threat rather than intervene, likening this intercession to an editor’s changing an entry’s tense from is to was.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2025

Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith got their celestial intercession thanks to the “Men In Black” actor’s Oscars night slap of presenter Chris Rock.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2023

Washington’s intercession ahead of the war’s anniversary appears to have been only partially successful.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 24, 2023

Adèle, when lifted in, commenced kissing me, by way of expressing her gratitude for my intercession: she was instantly stowed away into a corner on the other side of him.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

His effort to offer enrichment and catch-up work during intercessions got off to a slow start but has become a recurring instructional program.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026

Still, successive administrations in Washington sought to limit his ability to travel to the United States, despite personal intercessions from Putin.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2023

Priests gave intercessions for the big cat’s survival.

From Slate ● Dec. 24, 2022

"I hear loud and clear what he's had to say. Indeed, I'm the recipient of many of these intercessions on this matter," he said.

From BBC ● May 18, 2022

To these pleasing recollections he added the intercessions of so many powerful advocates, all eager to solicit the royal clemency in his behalf.

From Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. by Trueba y Cosío, Joaquín Telesforo de