as in interfering
to act as a go-between for opposing sides
intervened in the argument before any real harm was done
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Recent Examples of intervening
The deputy then continued on without intervening.
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Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026
The following year, the club were made aware of footage of two male Bournemouth supporters intervening after witnessing a woman being harassed on public transport.
—Cerys Jones, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2026
The clock started at seven minutes to midnight, and has ticked forward and backward over the intervening decades.
—Daniel Holz, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
What, in heaven’s name, had occurred in the intervening hours?
—Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
Episode 9 of Summer House Season 10 features Cooke and Batula feuding, with Wilson intervening after Cooke says some harsh words about Batula.
—Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 31 Mar. 2026
What’s changed in the intervening years is certainly not the ubiquity of this style of argument.
—Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
In the intervening nine years since 2003, Mars' Happy Valley community has flourished and grown into a burgeoning colony with thousands of residents trying to establish a cultural identity on the Red Planet without Earth's overbearing presence.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 27 Mar. 2026
The lessons that endure are about constraint and invention, messiness and coordination, contradiction and persistence—about intervening directly and fearlessly in material reality.
—Julian Rose, Artforum, 26 Mar. 2026
Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026
The following year, the club were made aware of footage of two male Bournemouth supporters intervening after witnessing a woman being harassed on public transport.
—Cerys Jones, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2026
The clock started at seven minutes to midnight, and has ticked forward and backward over the intervening decades.
—Daniel Holz, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
What, in heaven’s name, had occurred in the intervening hours?
—Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
Episode 9 of Summer House Season 10 features Cooke and Batula feuding, with Wilson intervening after Cooke says some harsh words about Batula.
—Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 31 Mar. 2026
What’s changed in the intervening years is certainly not the ubiquity of this style of argument.
—Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
In the intervening nine years since 2003, Mars' Happy Valley community has flourished and grown into a burgeoning colony with thousands of residents trying to establish a cultural identity on the Red Planet without Earth's overbearing presence.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 27 Mar. 2026
The lessons that endure are about constraint and invention, messiness and coordination, contradiction and persistence—about intervening directly and fearlessly in material reality.
—Julian Rose, Artforum, 26 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intervening
Verb
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Reiser also faulted Adam Cohen for interfering in the sale of his father’s music catalog to Hipgnosis.—
Gene Maddaus,
Variety,
3 Apr. 2026
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The next shower to peak is the Eta Aquariids on May 5-6, when sky-gazers can expect to see less than 10 meteors per hour because of the interfering moonlight, according to the American Meteor Society.—
Lily Hautau,
CNN Money,
31 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Hezbollah and its backer Iran, as well as mediating country Pakistan, say the agreement does include Lebanon.—
NPR Staff,
NPR,
10 Apr. 2026
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Epstein was also in frequent correspondence with Anas Al-Rasheed, an academic and former information minister of Kuwait, which was mediating between Qatar and the other Arab countries.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
8 Apr. 2026
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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
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“Intervening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intervening. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.
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