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intervening

[in-ter-veen]

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verb (used without object), -vened, -ven·ing.

to come between disputing people, groups, etc.; intercede; mediate.

to occur or be between two things.

to occur or happen between other events or periods: Nothing important intervened between the meetings.

(of things) to occur incidentally so as to modify or hinder: We enjoyed the picnic until a thunderstorm intervened.

to interfere with force or a threat of force: to intervene in the affairs of another country.

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Law. to interpose and become a party to a suit pending between other parties.

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Origin:
1580–90; < Latin intervenīre to come between, equivalent to inter- inter- + venīre to come; see convene

Related forms

re·in·ter·vene, verb (used without object), -vened, -ven·ing.

un·in·ter·ven·ing, adjective

Synonyms
1. arbitrate, interpose.

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Example Sentences

But it may be in even less need of a remake: the intervening four decades have cast this film in a highly contemporary light.

Here the intervening phrases, with two singular nouns, may have thrown us off track.

However, in the intervening years, it had become a junk room/student resource center/storage closet.

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But it may be in even less need of a remake: the intervening four decades have cast this film in a highly contemporary light.

Here the intervening phrases, with two singular nouns, may have thrown us off track.

However, in the intervening years, it had become a junk room/student resource center/storage closet.

But in the intervening weeks, little has actually happened.

Intervening obstacles influence the pattern of migration.

There must have been some developments in our understanding of these diminutive people during the intervening period.

During the intervening four centuries others have showered her with virtues.

Then they set the mechanical beast loose, only intervening to remove waste or replace consumed solutions.

Suppose you go out to concert or opera, there are four hours of darkness intervening.

In the intervening years scientists and philosophers have.

The time for intervening is before the decision is made.

Without intervening action, fiscal policy is on course to make matters worse.

Some conservation groups are intervening by breeding the birds in captivity.

Over the intervening decades, the methods have evolved.

It was terrific to find this article up after all the intervening years.

In the intervening year, open source activity has ignited.

But the infrequency of volcanic eruptions may make it hard to date intervening sediments.

Distant matters, whether rendered so by intervening space or time, have but an indefinite existence for us.

We are prevented by our roles from intervening on the candidates' behalf.

After decades of neglect, the state is at last intervening.

Over the intervening decades, advances in heavy artillery firepower had nearly rendered the fort's five-foot thick walls obsolete.

Another method uses an intervening star to gravitationally magnify the light from a more distant star with planets.

Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions.

But in the intervening years it has grown and grown and grown.

Scientists have both confirmed and questioned the theory in the intervening years.

Intervening in a mouse model of disease, maintained in pathogen-free settings, is far easier than treating healthy mice.

Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit.

In the intervening period, things have not improved.

In the intervening years their science progressed, both here and abroad.

About the only thing that had changed in the intervening two years was that the video quality had gotten better.

However, in the intervening years he has grown emotionally as well as physically.

The aims of intervening there are both humanitarian and idealistic but also political and pragmatic.

We usually end up intervening after a while to give everyone a break and restore some peace.

Nayfeld's daughter, but the intervening years would bring them only prison or legitimate work.

Face it, bad debt needs to be liquidated, and the central bank needs to stop intervening allow the market to correct itself.

The government is intervening to support farming, which employs half the population.

Yet he also ruled out intervening to create a buffer zone.

Yet the justification is the same: the costs of not intervening look larger.

One option is to keep on intervening as events unfold.

Ankara is playing a high-risk game by intervening in markets to shore up its currency and lacks the reserves to do.

In the intervening decades, the oil industry has made huge technological advances.

Install the intervening blocks so they nearly touch the line.

People are talking, which is of course the point for the nine intervening days.

In the intervening period he has been almost continually.

The harder sandstone ridges withstood the weathering of wind and water better than the softer intervening layers.

There is no evidence supporting any interaction of distant light with any kind of intervening matter:.

They had been attempting to drive down the franc by intervening in the money markets to little lasting effect.

In the intervening two months some of the cane had attained a height of five feet.

But intervening in a process can provide evidence of causation.

In the intervening years the economy has changed out of all recognition.

Little has happened in the intervening time, partly because this is not an easy task.

Intervening when the opponents have opened the bidding can certainly gain, by indicating a lead, by crowding the opponents or by.

For one thing, in the intervening years he had forgotten what the message said.

These depend on measuring health and vitamin loads without otherwise intervening in the subjects.

The stories told in the course of it piece together what has happened in the intervening years.

And in the intervening five years, the computer revolution seems to have caught up to her.

Japan took more action to try to tackle a strong yen, but without intervening directly in currency markets.

The intervening years have proved that charm is not enough.

Some things have changed in the intervening years, but the need is as great as ever, and so is the worker motivation.

And it is true that the intervening two years have been a period of soul-searching and re-evaluation.

Most countries have become more indebted in the intervening years.

The fund has been intervening this year, but to little avail.

As soon as the intervening call ends, everybody must try to re-enter the co-present context as gracefully as possible.

Greenspan, seem to engage in creating bubble conditions while also inexplicably intervening in the antics of a hedge.

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Etymonline

Word Origin & History

intervene

c.1600, from L. intervenire, from inter "between" + venire "to come" (see venue).

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