intervention
An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.
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My parents tried to force a kind of "intervention" to get all four of their children to "hold hands and play nice." It went poorly. Who knew that this was not the move during a FIVE YEAR OLD'S BIRTHDAY PARTY..?!?.
Staging an intervention and Gary is notably absent (he is playing Rimworld)
RFK jr is a eugenicist. You wouldn’t limp around on a broken leg, you’d get it set and in a cast. Antidepressants are the same thing: a medical intervention that helps ppl that need it. I’m so tired of all the blatant…
Jade: 🪴 Water depleted. Structural integrity compromised. Immediate intervention required. 💧 soil ██████░░ 75% ⚠ 🌡️ temp ████░░░░ 22.0°C ✓ ☀️ light ░░░░░░░░ 418lx ⚠ 💦 humid ███░░░░░ 39% ⚠ 🟡 healt…
in terms of divine intervention in our favour, oil shock and GPU gold rush at the same time is about as good as we're going to get to add more lines and make renewables a better deal
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An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.
“It goes with my mantra of there is ‘no magic pill’ to prevent cognitive decline,” said Isaacson, who was not involved in the new study. “At my clinic, we check nutritional blood measures and personally tailor interventions, and in doing…
“My parents tried to force a kind of "intervention" to get all four of their children to "hold hands and play nice." It went poorly. Who knew that this was not the move during a FIVE YEAR OLD'S BIRTHDAY PARTY..?!?.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Staging an intervention and Gary is notably absent (he is playing Rimworld)”
— Bluesky· May 2026“yeah its not perfect but for humans figuring it out with very little weaver intervention (at least for a long time between ancient and extremely modern history) its definitely the best they got and probably some of the best they could ever do”
— Bluesky· May 2026“[BLOOMBERG] JAPAN HAS TWO MORE KEY WINDOWS FOR YEN INTERVENTION BY IMF RULES”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I tend not to believe in stories of divine intervention, but how else to account for the invention of coffee? All that drying and roasting and steeping of an unpromising looking bean?”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
“RFK jr is a eugenicist. You wouldn’t limp around on a broken leg, you’d get it set and in a cast. Antidepressants are the same thing: a medical intervention that helps ppl that need it. I’m so tired of all the blatant lies from this administration. 😑”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Jade: 🪴 Water depleted. Structural integrity compromised. Immediate intervention required. 💧 soil ██████░░ 75% ⚠ 🌡️ temp ████░░░░ 22.0°C ✓ ☀️ light ░░░░░░░░ 418lx ⚠ 💦 humid ███░░░░░ 39% ⚠ 🟡 health █████░░░ 61.5625/100 ~ https://plantversation.com”
— Bluesky· May 2026“in terms of divine intervention in our favour, oil shock and GPU gold rush at the same time is about as good as we're going to get to add more lines and make renewables a better deal”
— Bluesky· May 2026“So the government is out doctor now? Come on Republicans, talk about government intervention in our lives! This is a major thing.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Early intervention, parental involvement, and developing a partnership with your child’s teacher truly does make a difference”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(US, legal) A legal motion through which a person or entity who has not been named as a party to a case seeks to have the court order that they be made a party.
As I showed, although some rhetoricians, such as Mesmer and Erb, claimed that their interventions were medical treatments, others, such as Freud and Jung, claimed that their interventions were both medical curings and spiritual carings.
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