interpose
verb (used with object)
to place between; cause to intervene.
has interposed
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present perfectof interpose (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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What is new is the way Amazon has interposed itself between sellers and customers.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2022
It is to arrest this process that the Government has interposed R. F. C. on the theory that $2,000,000,000 will cushion the fall, stop it. perhaps turn it up in the opposite direction.
From Time Magazine Archive
If a decent interval has interposed between you and your schooldays, you probably think of Daniel Webster as a forbidding old party who invented U. S. oratory and was somehow not elected President.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Look, I don't know who has interposed thus in our favor, but—if John Burrill were alive to-night you and I would be—beggars."
From The Diamond Coterie by Lawrence L. Lynch
What he dislikes in young Doctor Paramore is that he has interposed a secondary and false conscience between himself and the facts.
From George Bernard Shaw by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
