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interpose (one, oneself, or something) between (someone or something)

To place one, oneself, or something between someone or something. I interposed myself between the cat and the door so that she couldn't make a run for it.
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interpose (something) in(to) (something)

To introduce something into a particular situation. Please don't interpose your thoughts into this meeting, OK? You're just supposed to be observing.
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interpose someone or something between people or things

to put someone or something between people or things, in any combination. I do not wish to interpose Randy between the twins. We will not interpose our own standards between these two warring factions.
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interpose something in (to) something

to introduce something into something; to put a question into a conversation. The chairman interposed a question into the discussion. May I interpose an observation in the proceedings?
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The sentence's grammar in lines 11-13 interposes between the reader and the forward motion of the narrative (since action is carried through subject-verb-object) just as the fly in the story interposed between the speaker and the light.
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This heroic moment in Catharine Sedgwick's most popular novel, in which Magawisca "interposes" her arm to save young Everell Fletcher from death at the hands of her father, the Pequot chief Mononotto, has often been interpreted as a rewriting of Pocahontas's intervention on behalf of John Smith.
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A selective paraphrase of the Gospels, the work interposes short passages of commentary.
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