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interventionist

British  
/ ˌɪntəˈvɛnʃənɪst /

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or advocating intervention, esp in the affairs of a foreign country

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noun

  1. an interventionist person or state

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Other Word Forms

  • interventionism noun

Example Sentences

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Greenberg suggested a more interventionist approach might be needed.

From Barron's • Dec. 27, 2025

Rupert Murdoch's 70-year career saw him as "both an interventionist editor-in-chief figure and a political kingmaker", according to Paddy Manning, an investigative journalist who wrote The Successor: The High-Stakes Life of Lachlan Murdoch.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2025

Though not without pushback from editors at home, who were more sympathetic to the quasi-isolationist, less interventionist views of their readership.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

Salazar, a Corona resident and daughter of immigrants, said she’d heard of a raid on the 91 Freeway, which she takes to go home from her job as a behavioral interventionist.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2025

Nevertheless, interventionist sentiment steadily gained, and Germany, recognizing the trend, organized a determined effort to keep Italy on the side of the alliance.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, Przemysl, Mazurian Lakes by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)