Example Sentences

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Shortages of advanced AI chips are so acute that Beijing is intervening, prompting tech company workarounds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 16, 2025

Many farmers said they understand that managing groundwater is vital for the area’s future, but they argued that the way the state is intervening could threaten their livelihoods.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2024

They include the company behind a new coal mine in Whitehaven called West Cumbria Mining, as well as the Office for Environmental Protection which is intervening in a case for the first time.

From BBC • Jun. 20, 2023

Second, whether it is the case or not, jurors will automatically believe you are doing something you should not be doing if the neutral judge is intervening.

From Slate • Apr. 28, 2023

The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils.

From Walden by Thoreau, Henry David