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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

"If they break it so much that federal courts are intervening," Noti told the Times, "that would seemingly be an intolerable situation to Mitch McConnell."

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2022

"Firemen are intervening, avoid the area," the Prefecture de Police said in a statement on Twitter.

From Reuters • Nov. 20, 2021

Some states are conducting universal testing themselves, he said, while others are intervening only during critical moments.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2020

They are intervening ridges between low grounds, or marshes and bodies of water, and their location not generally considered very healthy.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.