William Godwin

Woe to the man who is always busy - hurried in a turmoil of engagements, from occupation to occupation, and with no seasons interposed of recollection, contemplation and repose! Such a man must inevitably be gross and vulgar, and hard and indelicate - the sort of man with whom no generous spirit would desire to hold intercourse.

English Writer

Baha'u'llah

They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.

Clergyman

Levi Woodbury

Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth and kind of education and associates a man has grown up with, and good character may at times interpose, and justly save, under suspicion, one who is accused of crime on slight circumstances.

American Judge

Alexis de Tocqueville

No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure.

French Historian

Joseph Lancaster

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.

English Educator

Howard Staunton

Be cautious of playing your Queen in front of your King and in subjecting yourself to a discovered check. It is better when check is given to your King to interpose a man that attacks the checking Piece than with one that does not.

English Celebrity

Richard Dawkins

Of course, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing to add to that knowledge, as we still know nothing about the creation of that intelligence.

English Scientist

When the King is checked, or any valuable Piece in danger from the attack of an enemy, you are said to interpose a man when you play it between the attacked and attacking Piece.

Annie Besant

The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.

English Philosopher

John Gay

Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.

English Poet

Use 'interpose' when referring to a physical object creating a barrier or distance between things.

Physical Separation

'Interpose' can also describe creating a non-physical separation, like a difference in opinion.

Metaphorical Barrier

Use 'interpose' to indicate an attempt to prevent a situation from becoming worse.

Prevent Escalation

'Interpose' often implies a polite or gentle interruption, not a harsh one.

Smooth Interruption

'Interpose' can suggest contributing to a conversation without dominating it.

Add to Discussion

Use 'interpose' when the insertion of an idea doesn't take sides in a discussion.

Neutral Contribution

 and from the uh uh from the entrance this is the uh this gives you a good sense of what the hotel is like in terms of of the architecture that it presents and the various barriers that it interposes between you and the ocean this is this is a high view it shows um first of all it's not a very large

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 looking at brain at progressively higher magnifications we're now looking at a slab that's about a tenth of a millimeter in height of a small piece of brain where some of those nerve cells they're now all kind of pink in color are interposed with blood vessels and

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 And the primary tool we used to reform surveillance law was to require a search warrant for the government to be able to get access to our phone calls and our letters. Now, the reason why a search warrant is important is because it interposes a judge

Interpose

Physical Separation

Metaphorical Barrier

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