intervening
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Japanese policymakers have been intervening in the currency market to stem the slide in the Japanese yen.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
“How could this take place over the course of five or six hours without anyone intervening or knowing about it?”
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2026
The idea is that, eventually, babies will learn to get themselves back to sleep without the parents intervening and, ultimately, that they get better sleep overall.
From Slate • May 3, 2026
Ofsted received more than 100 alerts about concerns without intervening before the homes were closed.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026
Colonel Edmund Rice, chief of the exposition’s Columbian Guard, described what it was like to stand in a shaded wood at Gettysburg as Pickett launched his men across the intervening field.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Vocabulary lists containing intervening
Franklin D. Roosevelt, "A Date That Will Live In Infamy" (1941)
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Selected Short Stories of H.G. Wells
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The Martian
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