intervened

past tense of intervene

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of intervened The Oaklandside reported last year that Duffey had intervened in the city’s search, personally advocating for ABC Security, the company that held the incumbent contract for Oakland’s security services. Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025 Security staff and plainclothes police officers quickly intervened and escorted the man out of the church, according to multiple Italian news outlets. Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2025 Security personnel immediately intervened, helping the nine-time Grammy winner back up onto her feet and pushing the rogue audience member back. Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2025 According to the social media user who shared the footage on TikTok, a witness said the woman had pulled over to ask for directions when DHS officers quickly intervened, threw her to the ground, and led her away. Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025 On occasion, courts have intervened to protect First Amendment rights, a weapon Madison didn’t anticipate. Donald Nieman, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025 His wife and their 20-year-old son intervened and were able to stop him from committing further violence, police said, per FOX 2, CBS News and WPHM. Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025 When rivalries intervened In 1908, the Nobel physics committee, then chaired by Knut Ångström, initially favoured Max Planck. Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2025 The United States first seized Guantánamo Bay in 1898, when Washington intervened in the last throes of Cuba’s thirty-year struggle for independence from Spain. Miriam Pensack, The Dial, 30 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intervened
Verb
  • But a thing called the Civil War interfered.
    Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Weiser, Polis and the state's top water official — state engineer Jason Ullman — denied Nebraska's claims that Colorado interfered in its attempts to build the canal and denied the allegations that Colorado is not meeting the requirements of the compact.
    Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Once again, however, the Supreme Court interceded.
    Dan Walters, Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The Vatican says the first miracle attributed to Acutis was when he is said to have interceded from heaven in 2013 to save the life of a Brazilian child who was suffering from a rare pancreatic disease.
    Lauren Costantino September 6, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025

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“Intervened.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intervened. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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