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Six example sentences with intervention, each labelled with its topic.
Prices only steadied after the central bank's intervention, when it bought its own currency for three days straight.
Economics
The strike ended on the fourteenth day after the mayor's intervention, with both sides accepting terms she proposed herself.
Politics
Two departments had stopped speaking, and it took the founder's intervention over one long dinner to get the project moving again.
Business
Only the court's intervention stopped the two neighbors' feud over the fence, which had lasted three years.
Law
The referee's quick intervention separated the two players jawing at midcourt before anything worse than words was exchanged.
Basketball
Early intervention matters: a child who gets hearing aids at six months learns speech on the same timetable as everyone else.
Medicine
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