peeping Tom

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Recent Examples of peeping Tom The creepy 40-second teaser captures Danes as Aggie Wiggs and Matthew Rhys as Nile Jarvis in a montage of eerie mystery scenes, filled with death investigations, blood, and … a peeping Tom? Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for peeping Tom
Noun
  • Healey announced a similar military operation in November after Russia deployed the spy ship Yantar to the North Sea in 2025.
    Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Less than a week before the incident, the victim testified against Mohammed in an eviction hearing, prompting Mohammed to accuse him of being a government spy.
    Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Fortunately, this 3-D contoured mask doesn’t mess up my makeup or put pressure on my sensitive peepers.
    Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Payton must find answers in his reading peepers; dialing up more chunk plays.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 3 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Except Leo is the opposite of a snoop.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Terrible for me, an incorrigible snoop of other people’s phones, but probably a good thing for society at large.
    David Pierce, The Verge, 28 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Defenders can have a hard time distinguishing an intruder from a normal administrator in a busy environment, especially when the intruder is deliberately trying to make their actions look like ordinary activity.
    William Akoto, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Security dogs roamed the halls, ready to attack any intruder.
    Bill Gurley, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The Department’s mistake is to worry about Sarah instead of Zoë, the professional snooper.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
  • It is turned off by default—anything that can store this kind of history is something that a snooper or domestic abuser could access.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Wrestlers like Garcia and Stewart have achieved what Morrison has set his sights on, but Morrison isn’t a star gazer.
    Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 19 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • This pairing from Wildhorn worked in perfect harmony to keep gaper-gap at bay and airflow going directly from cutouts at the top of the helmet vents into the goggles.
    Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Another man asked if putting up higher barriers in the median might help with the dreaded gaper’s blocks that happen every time there’s an accident.
    Michelle L. Quinn, chicagotribune.com, 20 Oct. 2021
Noun
  • Researchers spent years running increasingly sophisticated experiments to pin down the interloper.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The interloper — whether male or female — is allowed to stay.
    Ari Daniel, NPR, 18 Mar. 2026

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“Peeping Tom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peeping%20Tom. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.

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