intercession

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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

Referring to Mary, Francis said that “in these hours, we invoke her intercession, in particular for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who, yesterday morning, left this world.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 1, 2023

Through Dr. Trefusis’s kind intercession, I was permitted to ride with them, though atop the carriage, rather than within.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson