intervention
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After about 72 hours, manual intervention becomes necessary.
From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026
However, the KMI Panel unanimously supported the non-VAR intervention, stating that it was "in keeping with the high threshold for VAR overturns".
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
The yen held steady against the dollar as traders watched for confirmation of Bank of Japan intervention.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
She was shameless in the way she treated your grandmother in public and, in the absence of any intervention, she felt free to change her mother’s will.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 2026
For 2.5 million years humans fed themselves by gathering plants and hunting animals that lived and bred without their intervention.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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