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
In the intervening years, when he was largely absent from U.S. podiums, Mr. Thomas cemented an enduring relationship with the London Symphony Orchestra, becoming its chief conductor in 1988.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
The image is read by the Voyager computers, radioed back across the immense intervening distance of half a billion kilometers to a radio telescope, a ground station on the Earth.
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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