Sample Sentences for
intervene
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intervene as in:  intervened in the war

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    They are opposed to Russian intervention in their country.
    intervention = involvement
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    Why did the U.S. not intervene earlier in WW II?
    intervene = get involved
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    So Jim asked me to monitor the contest, and to intervene if it ever became necessary.  (source)
    intervene = get involved to influence an outcome
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    If he'd intervened, it might have changed everything.  (source)
    intervened = gotten involved (to help)
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    That's not a matter for government intervention.  (source)
    intervention = involvement
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    We used the Pakistani rupee, but the government of Pakistan could only intervene on foreign policy.  (source)
    intervene = get involved
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    "Have some more," she insists, until Father intervenes and upholds my right to refuse a dish I don't like.  (source)
    intervenes = gets involved (to help)
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    Dr. Mansour would explain these interventions of his by saying "I always pass on my experience to my children," and it was in exactly the same fatherly spirit that Dr. Mansour was accustomed to destroy the hopes of the students whose theses he was supervising.†  (source)
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    Cabbages grew in plain sight; and a pumpkin-vine, rooted at some distance, had run across the intervening space, and deposited one of its gigantic products directly beneath the hall window, as if to warn the Governor that this great lump of vegetable gold was as rich an ornament as New England earth would offer him.  (source)
    intervening = between
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    Ali was bound for the premed track at the University of California at San Diego and would go on to get his medical degree at Johns Hopkins, eventually specializing in vascular and interventional radiology.†  (source)
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    "The Berlin cabinet cannot express a feeling of alliance," began Hippolyte gazing round with importance at the others, "without expressing...as in its last note...you understand...Besides, unless His Majesty the Emperor derogates from the principle of our alliance... "Wait, I have not finished..." he said to Prince Andrew, seizing him by the arm, "I believe that intervention will be stronger than nonintervention.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nonintervention means not and reverses the meaning of intervention. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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    Greasy Sae had intervened and sent us with our deer to the butcher, but not before it'd been badly damaged, hunks of meat taken, the hide riddled with holes.  (source)
    intervened = gotten involved (to help)
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    Without intervention, the colony will die.  (source)
    intervention = active involvement to bring about change
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intervene as in:  in the intervening years

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I knew her as a child and then saw her again in college. She had grown into an articulate woman during the intervening years.
intervening = time during the
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    Decades intervened before the story was written.
    intervened = passed
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    All of the intervening layers slipped away, and I lost myself in the game within the game.  (source)
    intervening = between
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    It's morning now, so most of the intervening time has been night.  (source)
    intervening = in between
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    It cannot jump over the intervening space.  (source)
    intervening = between two things
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    For Alexander Rostov had spent the intervening years traveling up and down the Metropol's staircase from his bedroom to the Boyarsky and back again.  (source)
    intervening = time between the
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    She looked down at his hands, at the coarse, dark hairs that had sprouted on the back of them in the intervening years.  (source)
    intervening = passing between the
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    They needed to stick to the routine they'd established during the intervening months.  (source)
    intervening = passage of time during the
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    He remembered no intervening time, no sore feet—but here he was, addressing in the politest terms an old lady who stood in the doorway of a flat-fronted terraced house.  (source)
    intervening = in between
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    It had gotten seedier in the fifty intervening years and after taking stock we left.  (source)
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    Colonel Edmund Rice, chief of the exposition's Columbian Guard, described what it was like to stand in a shaded wood at Gettysburg as Pickett launched his men across the intervening field.  (source)
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    And so what had happened to him, in these intervening months?†  (source)
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    A wailing cry sounded from the outer corridors, its volume muffled by the intervening hangings.†  (source)
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    Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?†  (source)
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