intervening
Example Sentences
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By waiting until the initial healing process was complete, the researchers allowed the body to respond normally before intervening.
From Science Daily • Jun. 17, 2026
During the intervening period, government spending has risen faster than inflation.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
The justice minister praised the "brave people who disarmed the attacker", referring to a group of people who can be seen intervening in a video of the incident circulated online.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
This is despite her insistence that her values haven’t changed in the intervening years.
From Salon • Jun. 5, 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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