interpose

But those who try to interpose the regime in the most personal aspects of people’s lives, including the choice of what to wear, run different kinds of risks.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2022

Over the weekend, he hastened to testify to the Justice Department inspector general and the Senate Judiciary Committee before Trump could seek to interpose assertions of executive privilege.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 8, 2021

According to longstanding judicial precedent, Congress must clearly articulate its intent to interpose itself between a state and its political subdivisions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2016

One faction accepted that government would have to change as the economy and society changed, if only because it alone had sufficient scale to interpose itself between corporate power and individual citizens.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2016

The regulation of genes—the selective turning on and off of certain genes in certain cells, and at certain times—must interpose a crucial layer of complexity on the unblinking nature of biological information.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

As Rachel interposes herself in the police investigation, befriending Scott and antagonizing Tom, the movie adeptly guides viewers to all the wrong conclusions.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2016

BST21:03 Fiorina interposes a discourse on Iran policy.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 16, 2015

There’s an awkward pause, and the friend apologetically interposes, “He doesn’t mean homosexual, Uncle Ben.”

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2014

A few days later, the examining judge replied: “Dear Sir,—The court interposes no objection to your going to Mexico.”

From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2013

An instant of self-indulgence—like a phantom that interposes itself between lovers to feel what it is to be alive.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

“I’m not a Nikki fan and I’m not a Pelosi fan and when I purposely interposed names they said, ‘He didn’t know Pelosi from Nikki, from Tricky Nikki,” he said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024

Such a note, seemingly interposed at random, echoes Whitman and DeFeo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2023

Then a newsreel begins to play - it shows a montage of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah, interposed with scenes of violence that marked the partition.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2022

What is new is the way Amazon has interposed itself between sellers and customers.

From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2022

“I don’t mean any present at all, Joe,” I interposed.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

This device is so effective, in fact, that Kijak borrows it wholesale, repeatedly interposing these moments of gay serendipity, many of them identical to those in “Home Movies.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2023

The message was encoded by mechanically interposing or not interposing a three-inch block of brass in the muon beam every time a 12-billion-electron-volt synchrotron at the Argonne National Laboratory emitted a short burst of particles.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 1, 2022

I was doing depositions last week and we’re interposing and everybody’s really nasty, and then we’re off the record and we’re like, “Does anybody want salads? Do you want a veggie burger?”

From Slate ● Dec. 6, 2019

But others worry about a machine interposing between parent and child.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 22, 2016

Mama asked, interposing herself between me and Dad.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers