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  • The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace.
    intercept = caught before arrival
  • The police intercepted the smugglers before they crossed the border.
    intercepted = caught in route
  • We intercepted missile while it was still in the high atmosphere.
    intercepted = stopped before arrival
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  • One of the animals heard the sound—ducked down—saw it coming and instinctively chased the moving object, gliding swiftly among the tables to intercept the egg as it rolled.  (source)
    intercept = catch
  • I started after him, but DeShawn intercepted me.  (source)
    intercepted = caught and stopped someone or something in route
  • Paul watched her hasten down the walk to the driveway, intent not on meeting but intercepting him.†  (source)
  • TONY [He is unaware that Bernardo is crossing toward him, but Riff intercepts.]  (source)
    intercepts = stops him in route
  • Of what nature the wrongs are thou hast done him, I know not; but thy intercepter, full of despite, bloody as the hunter, attends thee at the orchard end: dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for thy assailant is quick, skilful, and deadly.†  (source)
    intercepter = someone or something that intercepts
  • I'll have to intercept Caleb before he mentions anything to our parents, but Caleb can keep a secret.  (source)
    intercept = stop or catch
  • She sometimes gets hung up, or intercepted.†  (source)
  • So I told him about my dad and the eggs and salmonella and how I'd been intercepting eggs for nearly two years.†  (source)
  • The information on the cart was from a variety of sources, but to Ryan the most significant were tactical radio intercepts from listening posts on the Pakistani border, and, he gathered, from inside Afghanistan itself.†  (source)
  • Several JURORS rise as if to intercept the 10TH JUROR.  (source)
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