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How to pronounce “intercept”
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Pronunciation guide for intercept
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of intercept with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Trevor Aaronson: How this FBI strategy is actually creating US-based terrorists 9 minutes, 23 seconds
Today, The Intercept published my new story
- Definition summary
- (transitive) To stop, deflect or divert (something in progress or motion).
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How to pronounce intercept
Trevor Aaronson: How this FBI strategy is actually creating US-based terrorists 9 minutes, 23 seconds

Today, The Intercept published my new story
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “intercept”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To stop, deflect or divert (something in progress or motion).
- (transitive, sports) To gain possession of (the ball) in a ball game.
- (transitive, mathematics) To take or comprehend between.
- To perform an aeronautical action in which a fighter approaches a suspicious aircraft to escort it away from a prohibited area, or approaches an enemy aircraft to shoot it down.
- [Noun]
- An interception of a radio broadcast or a telephone call.
- An interception of a missile.
- (algebraic geometry) The coordinate of the point at which a curve intersects an axis.
- (marketing) A form of market research where consumers are intercepted and interviewed in a retail store or mall.
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