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interfere

[in-ter-feer] / ˌɪn tərˈfɪər /


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Bessent last week said the Treasury’s debt buybacks wouldn’t interfere with monetary policy.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

Researchers designed this delay to interfere with the memory trace associated with the critical experience, potentially strengthening the intervention's effects.

From Science Daily Aug. 18, 2026

"If visitors follow our advice and do not feed or interfere with the deer, it is highly unlikely that they will exhibit this type of behaviour."

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

Solicitor General D. John Sauer told the court the project is already 65% complete and argued that stopping construction would interfere with security improvements at the White House.

From Salon Aug. 15, 2026

She was someone who minded her own business and had long since discovered it was seldom worth while to interfere with other people's children.

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl

And both have their reasons for rejecting science that interferes with their own interests.

From Salon Aug. 13, 2026

If investors conclude for themselves that having a high concentration of individual stocks interferes with their goals, they might forgo this approach.

From MarketWatch Jul. 13, 2026

If the weather interferes with your chances of seeing the Strawberry Moon tonight, do not worry as there are more opportunities to see full Moons this summer.

From BBC Jun. 29, 2026

If the key damage occurs when a-beta interferes with tau inside neurons, those external plaques may not directly disrupt tau or the microtubules it supports.

From Science Daily Jun. 19, 2026

Experiments show that the motility of bull sperm is decreased by dinitrophenol, which interferes with the energy- coupling mechanism with inevitable loss of energy.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

On Tuesday, China's foreign ministry said its cooperation with Iran has "always been conducted within the framework of international law and should not be interfered with or disrupted".

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

Lin said: "Cooperation between China and Iran has always been conducted within the framework of international law and should not be interfered with or disrupted."

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

But the new plan, issued in 2021, favored the ranchers, extending them 20-year leases, and allowed for the killing of elk if they interfered with cattle.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

Those green ecosystems are far different from California’s; our neighbor’s fires generally arise in massive boreal forests, which do not have debris or brush concerns because they’ve never been logged or otherwise interfered with.

From Slate Jul. 21, 2026

They hadn’t fought or interfered, but they helped Maddie up and dusted her off, and the workman ran loving hands down the Silent Superb’s fender.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

These scaffolds act as protective barriers during healing, keeping soft tissue from interfering with the damaged area while giving new bone space to grow.

From Science Daily Aug. 12, 2026

The constitution limits the president from unilaterally interfering with local laws.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

He does not want federal judges interfering in the redistricting process, not even to prioritise black Americans like himself.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

This past weekend’s “CBS Sunday Morning” featured a segment from national security correspondent David Martin about the Department of Defense interfering with the editorial independence of Stars & Stripes, the military newspaper.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

The children s little dog came out, interfering, getting in her way.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin




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