intrusion
noun
in·tru·sion
in-ˈtrü-zhən 
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The packages were subsequently left untouched over the weekend, with video surveillance showing no intrusion.
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News Desk, Artforum, 21 Oct. 2025
Complaints about the intrusion of technology into hobbies are not new.
—Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
Prosecutors claim these materials included sensitive intelligence and internal government communications, and that several of them were later exposed in a 2021 cyber intrusion linked to Iranian actors.
—Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
His darkly satiric new movie, aptly titled One Battle After Another, opened September 26 to rapturous, or merely stunned, reviews, only to confront a $34 million box office intrusion from Taylor Swift — one that may ironically enhance Anderson’s future Oscar forays.
—Peter Bart, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
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News Desk, Artforum, 21 Oct. 2025
Complaints about the intrusion of technology into hobbies are not new.
—Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
Prosecutors claim these materials included sensitive intelligence and internal government communications, and that several of them were later exposed in a 2021 cyber intrusion linked to Iranian actors.
—Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
His darkly satiric new movie, aptly titled One Battle After Another, opened September 26 to rapturous, or merely stunned, reviews, only to confront a $34 million box office intrusion from Taylor Swift — one that may ironically enhance Anderson’s future Oscar forays.
—Peter Bart, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
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“Intrusion.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intrusion. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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intrusion
noun
in·tru·sion
in-ˈtrü-zhən
1
: the act of intruding : the state of being intruded
2
: the entry by force of melted rock into or between other rock formations
Legal Definition
intrusion
noun
in·tru·sion
in-ˈtrü-zhən
1
a
: the entry at common law of a stranger after a particular estate of freehold is determined before the person who holds it in remainder or reversion has taken possession
b
: the act of wrongfully entering upon, seizing, or taking possession of the property of another
2
: a trespassing on or encroachment upon something (as a right)
the Fourth Amendment demands that the showing of justification match the degree of intrusion—Berger v. New York, 388 U.S. 41 (1968)
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