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intervention

[in-ter-ven-shuhn] / ˌɪn tərˈvɛn ʃən /


NOUN
armed interference
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White House communications director Steven Cheung criticized the “media freakout” over the comments, saying that the president was pointing out how American cities would have been threatened if it were not for U.S. military intervention.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Money has been poured into startups focused on daily monitoring, early detection, diagnostics, and intervention.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

Explaining the success of his fund’s strategies this year, Tom Feng, the chief investment officer of the quant strategies product, acknowledged some of that success was a direct result of some fund-manager intervention.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

Spending on early intervention services has been cut by 44% over a decade, according to a report commissioned by the Children's Services Funding Alliance.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

The same is true for the two baffling sentences I used on page 140, the ones about moderate drinkers and Serbian intervention.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Another long-term goal of UC Riverside researchers is to understand the ecological role and impact of the donkey herd, which can also help inform whether population control or other interventions are needed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

The Charity Commission also said its regulatory interventions to protect Fashion For Relief's funds ensured other charities received almost £250,000 that was owed to them.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

PCE inflation data—the Fed’s preferred inflation metric—for August will likely drive rate expectations Wednesday, as well as interventions from a bevy of Fed policymakers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The team first showed that each of these interventions could improve glymphatic function in healthy animals.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

Radical genetic interventions could only be imagined in radically egalitarian societies.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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