intervene
Example Sentences
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It built up £1.8bn debt as a result of its commercial strategy, which led to the government intervening into the council last summer.
From BBC
The show’s executive producer Ken Mok says their job was to capture, not to intervene: “We treated ‘Top Model’ as a documentary, and we told the girls that.”
From Los Angeles Times
If you can watch one TV replay and see the on-field decision is clearly wrong, you intervene.
From BBC
A federal judge intervened at the last minute, pushing the deadline indefinitely.
From Salon
It has been a fixture in the Chinese stock market for more than a decade, usually buying exchange-traded funds, and was widely noted when it intervened to prop up prices during a 2015 crash.
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