How to Use intervention in a Sentence

intervention

noun
  • On the flip side of that, the economic costs of many of those interventions are very large.
    Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 30 July 2023
  • Hence the need for Supreme Court intervention has been clear.
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 16 Dec. 2023
  • The latter would call for interventions that address the root of the health issue.
    Jenna Ryu, SELF, 2 May 2024
  • Thanks to the intervention of Roberts and others like her, conditions in the camp improved.
    Sue Eisenfeld, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
  • His stand was in keeping with a long record of support for intervention abroad.
    Michael H. Brown, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The decision represents the first phase of what could be a two-step process of state intervention.
    Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2024
  • What would save it is corporate intervention, a move that in the end still comes down to profit for that company and it alone.
    Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 12 Feb. 2024
  • But there are signs that some interventions are working.
    Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The wine is made with little intervention in the vineyard or the winery, and without oak influence.
    Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Pruitt’s wife, Casey, was also hired at Plainview last month as a reading/math intervention teacher.
    Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 27 July 2023
  • For the past two years, Armstrong taught at Westerville City Schools as a preschool intervention specialist.
    Matt Leavitt, cleveland, 18 July 2023
  • The state argued court intervention on behalf of Black voters wasn't needed.
    CBS News, 26 Oct. 2023
  • And other states have dealt with the consequences of that through judicial intervention.
    Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 10 Apr. 2024
  • France pushed for a military intervention; the United States resisted the idea.
    Elian Peltier, New York Times, 4 May 2024
  • Whenever Wiman’s cancer threatened to kill him, a new intervention saved his life.
    Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
  • All sorts of interventions, from psychedelics to meditation and fortune-telling, had the potential to help someone.
    Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Already, that means that tactical vehicle interventions have been used more times this year than any year since 2016.
    Grant Lancaster, arkansasonline.com, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Even if the intervention is delivered after 40 minutes, there is still a 50 percent chance of revival.
    Helen Ouyang, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The case didn’t require police intervention like previous times her son was in crisis.
    Gillian Brassil, Sacramento Bee, 7 May 2024
  • As a result, the school was removed from the state of Florida's intervention list in just two years, according to the Little Rock district's announcement.
    Cynthia Howell, arkansasonline.com, 17 Dec. 2023
  • But districts won’t know what needs students have, such as extra staff support or one-on-one interventions, until they are enrolled.
    Sarah Ritter, Kansas City Star, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Try on heat-free styling Look, the idea of letting your curls dry au natural and without any heat intervention can seem daunting, especially if that has been your go-to styling fix.
    Arushi Sinha, Glamour, 27 July 2023
  • Lee’s intervention in the main cottage, a four-bedroom Shingle Style dwelling that was built in 1975, does just that, integrating references to the past with modern touches for a fresh take.
    Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Just like all of Bridgers’ holiday songs, proceeds will be donated, this year to the Aisling Project, an after school intervention program.
    Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2023
  • And when the next crisis calls for strong state intervention, there is now an even greater likelihood of regulatory overreach.
    Angela Huyue Zhang, TIME, 7 May 2024
  • One officer was trained in crisis intervention, the report states.
    Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2023
  • And 39 out of 42 beta-thalassemia patients no longer needed blood or bone marrow transplants—the standard treatment for this disease—for one year after the exa-cel intervention.
    Sara Reardon, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2023
  • But an intervention by the court — especially one that would uphold the result — could risk being seen as a political act.
    Charlie Savage, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Valdez-Yeager had been battling a rare form of anemia that did not respond to various interventions, her family said in a statement.
    Alejandra Molina, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • More than 60 years ago, policymakers in Colorado embraced the idea that early intervention could prevent child abuse and save lives.
    Kristin Jones, NPR, 25 Apr. 2024

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