intervene
verb (used without object)
to come between disputing people, groups, etc.; intercede; mediate.
are intervening
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present progressiveof intervene.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 many situations today, he said, multiple foreign countries are intervening on behalf of their own interests.
From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2024
Across the continent, some governments are intervening by capping prices on food essentials, rather than waiting for the economic debates about corporate profiteering to play out.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2023
From here, they are intervening into the U.S. literary and cultural landscape, challenging tightly held fictions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
"Firemen are intervening, avoid the area," the Prefecture de Police said in a statement on Twitter.
From Reuters ● Nov. 20, 2021
It has never occurred to you that there are intervening physical agencies that you ought to take into account.
From Applied Psychology: Making Your Own World Being the Second of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency by Warren Hilton
