Intervene
verb
To step in or become involved in a situation to stop or change something.
The police had to intervene in the fight.
Often appears as...
- intervene in a dispute
- intervene in a situation
verb
To happen in a way that interrupts or prevents something.
We had planned a picnic, but the rain intervened.
Often appears as...
- intervene with plans
- intervene with progress
verb
To legally get involved in a case or issue.
The federal government intervened in the state case.
Often appears as...
- intervene in a case
- intervene in legal proceedings
Usage tips
Formal
verb
To occur in time or order between two other things.
The dessert course will intervene before we serve coffee.
Often appears as...
- intervene between courses
- intervene between events
verb
To step in or become involved in a situation to stop or change something.
The police had to intervene in the fight.
Often appears as...
- intervene in a dispute
- intervene in a situation
verb
To happen in a way that interrupts or prevents something.
We had planned a picnic, but the rain intervened.
Often appears as...
- intervene with plans
- intervene with progress
verb
To legally get involved in a case or issue.
The federal government intervened in the state case.
Often appears as...
- intervene in a case
- intervene in legal proceedings
Usage tips
Formal
verb
To occur in time or order between two other things.
The dessert course will intervene before we serve coffee.
Often appears as...
- intervene between courses
- intervene between events
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Help or Halt
Intervene implies a beneficial action to stop something negative or provide help in a situation.
The teacher intervened to prevent bullying in the classroom.
Pro Tip 2/3Active Involvement
It suggests actively becoming a part of a situation, rather than just watching or giving advice.
The lifeguard intervened during the emergency at the pool.
Pro Tip 3/3Neutral or Positive
Intervening is usually viewed as a neutral or positive action, not an act of aggression.
The UN often intervenes to help maintain peace between conflicting countries.
Pro Tip 1/3Help or Halt
Intervene implies a beneficial action to stop something negative or provide help in a situation.
The teacher intervened to prevent bullying in the classroom.
Pro Tip 2/3Active Involvement
It suggests actively becoming a part of a situation, rather than just watching or giving advice.
The lifeguard intervened during the emergency at the pool.
Pro Tip 3/3Neutral or Positive
Intervening is usually viewed as a neutral or positive action, not an act of aggression.
The UN often intervenes to help maintain peace between conflicting countries.
Pro Tip 1/3Help or Halt
Intervene implies a beneficial action to stop something negative or provide help in a situation.
The teacher intervened to prevent bullying in the classroom.
Pro Tip 2/3Active Involvement
It suggests actively becoming a part of a situation, rather than just watching or giving advice.
The lifeguard intervened during the emergency at the pool.
Pro Tip 3/3Neutral or Positive
Intervening is usually viewed as a neutral or positive action, not an act of aggression.
The UN often intervenes to help maintain peace between conflicting countries.
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Gary Haugen: The hidden...
and the prosecutors hand it off to the courts, and the survivors of violence have to be supported by social services all the way through that. So you have to do an approach that pulls that all together. In the past, there's been a little bit of training of the courts, but they get crappy evidence from the police, or a little police intervention that has to do with narcotics or terrorism
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Upgrading management...
intervention at a time when they're going to get the practice and feedback they need to learn but as people demonstrate complex can we relax the bureaucracy and increase the speed and this is infuriating because we solve this problem in our personal lives at home were used to technology acting like a coach and helping us who in this room
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Sea Turtles 101 PIPE...
Illegal harvesting of turtle eggs, trafficking in turtle products, and ocean pollution are also concerns. However, policies have been enacted to reduce bycatch, protect turtle habitats, and prohibit the killing of sea turtles and their eggs. By continuing this kind of intervention,
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Ami Klin: A new way to...
because they have to see so many children. And we want to do that universally so that we don't miss any child. But this would be immoral if we also did not have an infrastructure for intervention, for treatment. We need to be able to work with the families, support the families,
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Elon Musk talks Twitter,...
you about for self-driving and um you said yep this very year where i am confident that we will have a car going from la to new york uh without any intervention yeah i i don't want to blow your mind but i'm not always right so talk what's the difference between
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Will we ever be able to...
Somehow, information about the first electron's quantum state, called a qubit of data, influences its partner without transmission across the intervening space. Einstein and his colleagues called this strange communcation spooky action at a distance.
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Learning from smallpox:...
meant that there was an effective intervention to stop the virus from spreading. And finally, the initial success of several countries in eliminating the disease within their borders served as a proof of principle for its eradication worldwide.
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Why do people join...
Many cults may be hard to identify, and for some, their beliefs, no matter how strange, are protected under religious freedom. But when their practices involve harassment, threats, illegal activities, or abuse, the law can intervene.
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How to make stress your...
I no longer want to get rid of your stress. I want to make you better at stress. And we just did a little intervention. If you raised your hand and said you'd had a lot of stress in the last year, we could have saved your life,
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Baby Twin Pandas PIPE Panda...
Not many animals would take their own babies back after human intervention, let alone someone else's. Ground-breaking techniques like a panda foster mum are helping to save a species.
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Gary Haugen: The hidden...
and the prosecutors hand it off to the courts, and the survivors of violence have to be supported by social services all the way through that. So you have to do an approach that pulls that all together. In the past, there's been a little bit of training of the courts, but they get crappy evidence from the police, or a little police intervention that has to do with narcotics or terrorism
Video examples
Upgrading management...
intervention at a time when they're going to get the practice and feedback they need to learn but as people demonstrate complex can we relax the bureaucracy and increase the speed and this is infuriating because we solve this problem in our personal lives at home were used to technology acting like a coach and helping us who in this room
Video examples
Sea Turtles 101 PIPE...
Illegal harvesting of turtle eggs, trafficking in turtle products, and ocean pollution are also concerns. However, policies have been enacted to reduce bycatch, protect turtle habitats, and prohibit the killing of sea turtles and their eggs. By continuing this kind of intervention,
Video examples
Ami Klin: A new way to...
because they have to see so many children. And we want to do that universally so that we don't miss any child. But this would be immoral if we also did not have an infrastructure for intervention, for treatment. We need to be able to work with the families, support the families,
Video examples
Elon Musk talks Twitter,...
you about for self-driving and um you said yep this very year where i am confident that we will have a car going from la to new york uh without any intervention yeah i i don't want to blow your mind but i'm not always right so talk what's the difference between
Video examples
Will we ever be able to...
Somehow, information about the first electron's quantum state, called a qubit of data, influences its partner without transmission across the intervening space. Einstein and his colleagues called this strange communcation spooky action at a distance.
Video examples
Learning from smallpox:...
meant that there was an effective intervention to stop the virus from spreading. And finally, the initial success of several countries in eliminating the disease within their borders served as a proof of principle for its eradication worldwide.
Video examples
Why do people join...
Many cults may be hard to identify, and for some, their beliefs, no matter how strange, are protected under religious freedom. But when their practices involve harassment, threats, illegal activities, or abuse, the law can intervene.
Video examples
How to make stress your...
I no longer want to get rid of your stress. I want to make you better at stress. And we just did a little intervention. If you raised your hand and said you'd had a lot of stress in the last year, we could have saved your life,
Video examples
Baby Twin Pandas PIPE Panda...
Not many animals would take their own babies back after human intervention, let alone someone else's. Ground-breaking techniques like a panda foster mum are helping to save a species.
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Quote examples
Wolfgang Hildesheimer
German Author
I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.
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Ibrahim Rugova
Statesman
Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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Pat Summerall
American Celebrity
There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
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Rachel Simmons
American Author
When girls can be honest with each other, they can make mistakes on their own terms and discover through experience - and not through knee-jerk adult intervention - what a healthy friendship should look like.
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Eric Cantor
American Politician
People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step.
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Janet Yellen
American Public Servant
While admirers of capitalism, we also to a certain extent believe it has limitations that require government intervention in markets to make them work.
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Colin Powell
American Statesman
There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.
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Jules Verne
French Author
What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?
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Nelson Mandela
South African Statesman
Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.
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Jimmy John Liautaud
American Businessman
Government intervention only hurts; it doesn't help.
Quote examples
Wolfgang Hildesheimer
German Author
I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.
Quote examples
Ibrahim Rugova
Statesman
Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
Quote examples
Pat Summerall
American Celebrity
There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
Quote examples
Rachel Simmons
American Author
When girls can be honest with each other, they can make mistakes on their own terms and discover through experience - and not through knee-jerk adult intervention - what a healthy friendship should look like.
Quote examples
Eric Cantor
American Politician
People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step.
Quote examples
Janet Yellen
American Public Servant
While admirers of capitalism, we also to a certain extent believe it has limitations that require government intervention in markets to make them work.
Quote examples
Colin Powell
American Statesman
There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.
Quote examples
Jules Verne
French Author
What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?
Quote examples
Nelson Mandela
South African Statesman
Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.
Quote examples
Jimmy John Liautaud
American Businessman
Government intervention only hurts; it doesn't help.
Example 1 of 10
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