"divine intervention" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1851, James McCosh, The Method of Divine Government, Physical and Moral, New York: Robert Carter & Bros., p. 479 (Google preview)",
          "text": "Nature cannot tell beforehand how a Divine intervention is to accomplish its object, for that intervention must be beyond nature, beyond all its findings and experience."
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          "ref": "1920, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, chapter 12, in The New Jerusalem:",
          "text": "And indeed if he does escape it will seem a miracle, and almost a divine intervention, not only to the pursued but to the pursuers.",
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          "ref": "1977 November 6, Ronald Sullivan, “Hospitals Introducing a Therapy Resembling 'Laying On of Hands'”, in New York Times, retrieved 2016-08-03:",
          "text": "Unlike some of the more colorful faith healers of the past, Dr. Krieger does not claim miraculous cures or divine interventions.",
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          "ref": "2002 April 10, Jessica Reaves, “How Dry We Are”, in Time, retrieved 2016-08-03:",
          "text": "Farmers in the Midwest are literally praying for rain: the St. John Catholic Church in Spearville, Kansas is holding four special services this week to seek divine intervention.",
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          "ref": "2022 September 28, Drachinifel, 18:04 from the start, in The USN Pacific Submarine Campaign - The Struggle is Real (Jan'43 - Jun'43), archived from the original on 2023-07-19:",
          "text": "As Silversides now commenced its best imitation of a two-and-a-half-thousand-ton roller coaster heading down into the depths, one of the junior officers half-ran, half-fell through the submarine into the forward torpedo room, to demand of Chief Smiley \"do something!\" about the stuck bow planes. Illustrating the completely-useless system shattered by the bomb blast, the chief informed the officer that the most-useful thing he was able to do right now was pray for divine intervention.",
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          "roman": "tévéantâréakmôn៍",
          "sense": "intervention by God",
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          "text": "I knew who you were as a [RuPaul's] Drag Race fan. So I was gagged personally and I still am gagged, but it was quite divine intervention. Thom Kerr, the photographer, really got the ball rolling and I had no idea what to expect of this shoot besides greatness.",
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          "text": "Nature cannot tell beforehand how a Divine intervention is to accomplish its object, for that intervention must be beyond nature, beyond all its findings and experience."
        },
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