intercedes

verb

present tense third-person singular of intercede
as in intervenes
to act as a go-between for opposing sides asked an old friend of the family to intercede in the bitter dispute over the inheritance

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Recent Examples of intercedes Young courtesan wannabe Gigi (Leslie Caron) and Parisian playboy Gaston (Louis Jourdan) see each other as just friends, until romance intercedes in the musical confection. — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 12 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intercedes
  1. intervenes
  2. interferes
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  • Human rights groups and critics say the government is complicit in the attacks and that Netanyahu's condemnation appears to be posturing since the Israeli military often intervenes on the settlers' side and the perpetrators are rarely prosecuted.
    — Dov Lieber, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
  • In it, the governor said his focus is always on students and emphasized that districts must fail students for five years in a row before the state intervenes.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of intervenes
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  • If a person interferes or one step fails, the system can adjust its plan and retry rather than requiring the entire task to be restarted.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2026
  • But as China’s 2018 detention of two Canadian citizens after Canada arrested a Huawei executive showed, the party readily interferes in the legal system when important interests are at stake.
    — Mark Jia, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2026
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“Intercedes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intercedes. Accessed 25 Oct. 2026.

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