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He said a number of other employees had complained about Bing, and he believes Walmart should have interceded more forcefully.

From Washington Post • Dec. 4, 2022

“You wish you could have interceded or you could have saved David.”

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2019

“A Harvard student was in obvious distress, and we need to understand how that came to be and whether we could have interceded earlier and more effectively,” he said.

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2018

But Fusion executives have interceded with former colleagues in media when their clients came under scrutiny, records and interviews show.

From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2017

While in the Tower he fell so grievously ill as to excite the Lieutenant's compassion, and Sir Henry appears to have interceded with the Queen on his behalf.

From Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries by Stone, J. M. (Jean Mary)