interceding

present participle of intercede

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of interceding Diamantis was accused of interceding twice for Acranom on a project at Weaver High School in Hartford, once during a dispute over the quality of the company’s work and again in their effort to obtain a second contract. — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 14 Sep. 2026 However, almost all of the respondents who agreed with this statement envisioned the National Guard interceding nonviolently to stop violent protests and riots. — Ryan Kennedy, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2025 When Paul offered to talk to some of 3M’s executives himself, she was mortified at the idea of her father interceding. — Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 20 May 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for interceding
intervening
Verb
  • Newsom has spoken about his meeting with Klaas in the intervening years.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2026
  • In a nutshell, the researchers looked for objects that only appeared (as blobs of light) at one spot in the IRAS data and at another spot in the AKARI data, possibly indicating motion of the same object across the intervening decades.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 6 Nov. 2026

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“Interceding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interceding. Accessed 15 Nov. 2026.

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