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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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    She was on the verge of apologizing again when Max intervened.  (source)
    intervened = got involved
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    Without intervention, the colony will die.  (source)
    intervention = active involvement to bring about change
    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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    Other people who have overcome the odds cite the same sorts of interventions.  (source)
    interventions = acts of influencing the direction of people's lives
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    I took up my place behind a yew tree, and I saw his dark figure move until the intervening headstones and trees hid it from my sight.  (source)
    intervening = getting between (a person and something viewed)
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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)
    nonintervention = not getting involved; or not interfering
    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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    On and on he would have gone, if Athena had not intervened.  (source)
    intervened = gotten involved
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    That's not a matter for government intervention.  (source)
    intervention = involvement
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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 cannot jump over the intervening space.  (source)
    intervening = between two things
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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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    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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    It's morning now, so most of the intervening time has been night.  (source)
    intervening = in between
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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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    It had gotten seedier in the fifty intervening years and after taking stock we left.  (source)
    intervening = in between
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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)
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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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    'Look,' said Hermione, intervening swiftly, 'that's really not what this meeting was supposed o be about—' 'It's OK, Hermione,' said Harry.†  (source)
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    Life has a funny way of intervening.†  (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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