intercept
verb (used with object)
to take, seize, or halt (someone or something on the way from one place to another); cut off from an intended destination.
are intercepting
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present progressiveof intercept.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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In “harvest now, decrypt later” attacks, threat actors are intercepting and storing massive volumes of encrypted data, which they intend to decode as soon as more mature quantum technology becomes available.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
While some UK politicians argue France should be doing more, its government has said police are intercepting boats at sea, aiming to stop them before migrants get onboard.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
The researchers hope to fine-tune estimates of how much groundwater plants are intercepting by taking samples—especially of deep-rooted, woody plants such as Polylepis, the Andean "fairy trees" with twisting limbs and papery bark.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 11, 2019
First, it is not at all unlikely that Cuban communications still depend on technology obtained from Moscow circa 1975 and that U.S. spies are intercepting them with circa-1975 techniques.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2017
But I learn that the cruisers in the bay are intercepting the communications, and I fear remittances will be impracticable.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones
