intervening
Example Sentences
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“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
More specifically, they claimed that the Virginia Constitution prevents amendments unless there is an intervening election in between the first time a proposed amendment is introduced and passed in the Legislature and the second time.
From Slate • May 8, 2026
During the intervening period Arsenal sat at the top looking down on all below them, but they have had a nine-point lead evaporate in the past 11 days.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026
While horrifying, the space-obsessed couldn’t have been wholly shocked when the Columbia disaster of 2003 echoed that of Challenger; that the shuttle program had flown nearly 90 missions in the intervening 17 years barely registered.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
Through a break in the clouds of Titan, you might glimpse Saturn and its rings, their pale yellow color diffused by the intervening atmosphere.
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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