intervening
Example Sentences
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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
Another factor under consideration is the risk that intervening could raise protests from other countries about “currency manipulation.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
Barely had he unpacked than White was summoned to the foreign ministry for intervening in a case involving Jewish circumcisers in Antwerp -- a probe he called "antisemitic."
From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026
Recovering money after the fact is so much more onerous than intervening while it’s happening.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 2026
We have previously mentioned the possibility of wormholes to get from one place in the universe to another without covering the intervening distance—through a black hole.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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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