Used in a Sentence

intervening

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for intervening.

Editorial note

His company completely ditched the strategy over the intervening months, in fact, in favor of iteratively improved ones.

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Definitions3
Parts of speech2

Quick take

intervention; mediation

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of intervening gathered in one view.

noun

intervention; mediation

adjective

Falling between two periods or events.

adjective

That intervenes or mediates.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for intervening.

Example sentences

1

His company completely ditched the strategy over the intervening months, in fact, in favor of iteratively improved ones.

2

It's a lot more interesting if google's cars actually had no steering wheel or way of intervening.

3

That is way past the point at which VPs can hire/fire without the CEO intervening.

4

Not only could there have been complete turnover in the intervening years, but there could have been various mergers, acquisitions, and spin-offs.

5

In both cases most funding goes towards intervening in much more ineffective ways than addressing root causes or common efficiently addressed mechanisms, however.

6

Wiser reasoning even seemed to ensure a longer life – those with the higher scores were less likely to die over intervening years.

7

In the intervening years, without any active development from me, site traffic grew to about 500k visits/month, then shrank back down to about 100k.

8

In the intervening years however most of that has become way outdated.

9

The only good innovation in the intervening century was the ATM..

10

The chord changes are separated by many intervening melodic events (notes).

11

The economic circumstances of the job market for engineers changed in the intervening decades, and the prevailing attitudes within that job market changed right along with them.

12

Here's what will actually happen in the coming months, China will keep on intervening in the stock market causing it to stop falling (because selling will be impossible).

Quote examples

1

Use this command with caution:" "If you move the execution point backwards, intervening instructions are not undone.

2

And the EU intervening and solving the mess is probably impossible to sell to the electorate of the strong economies of Europe like Germany, specially after so many years of "lazy greeks" headlines.

3

We're not talking about coming up with cutting-edge new experiments, just reproducing an old result using lab techniques that have probably become far less "cutting edge" in the intervening years...

4

I'm a bit puzzled as to why dropdowns are a "4 tap operation" - once to dropdown and once to select, with possibly some intervening scrolling if it's a lengthy list.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use intervening in a sentence?

His company completely ditched the strategy over the intervening months, in fact, in favor of iteratively improved ones.

What does intervening mean?

intervention; mediation

What part of speech is intervening?

intervening is commonly used as noun, adjective.