intervening
Example Sentences
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However, the results suggest that intervening before the disease appears can meaningfully alter its course, potentially reducing the number of years people spend living with symptoms and related complications.
From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026
It has adopted a ticktock release schedule, with major architecture advances coming every two years and upgrades in the intervening years.
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
Thus, governments oscillate between ignoring developments that are moving too fast to process and aggressively intervening when scary risks appear.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 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
Ever since the Prince had dragged her to her room she had spent the intervening hours thinking of ways to make Westley happy.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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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