as in to interfere
to interest oneself in what is not one's concern
a private investigator snooping around the abandoned warehouse
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as in spy
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Recent Examples of snoop
Television Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Apr. 2026
When Sonny eventually passes out, Chee starts doing some snooping around.
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Jordan Hoffman,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 Mar. 2026
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.
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David Pierce,
The Verge,
28 Feb. 2026
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Verb
Anymore, which will allow subscribers to snoop at a deep level on just about anyone in the world; the war against the data eaters, the name suggests, is long since lost, and is none of your business, anyway.
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Television Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Apr. 2026
When Sonny eventually passes out, Chee starts doing some snooping around.
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Jordan Hoffman,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 Mar. 2026
Noun
Except Leo is the opposite of a snoop.
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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.
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David Pierce,
The Verge,
28 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snoop
Verb
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Negrón also referred to the Justice Department and its Office of Government Ethics, the findings of an internal investigation led by the economic development agency against two government officials, who are accused of interfering in the process for an auction of a contract involving federal funds.
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The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America undertake to respect each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity and to refrain from interfering in each other's internal affairs.
Noun
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Russia is essentially trying to build a closed, spy-friendly, domestic version of the Internet.
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Brown and Harbour are set to star in and executive produce an upcoming spy drama show from A24 that has received a straight-to-series order at Netflix.
Verb
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There was something a little therapeutic about messing it up.
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The sequence in which Carmy tries to talk Richie down from a panic attack feels equally dynamic and alive right to its conclusion — when Carmy pretends they’ve gotten locked in, just as Carmy once was, to mess with Richie’s head.
Noun
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The Department’s mistake is to worry about Sarah instead of Zoë, the professional snooper.
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It is turned off by default—anything that can store this kind of history is something that a snooper or domestic abuser could access.
Verb
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Perched on a finger of land that pokes into Lebanon, Metula is usually crowded with tourists this time of year.
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The second is a vent which pokes out above your clothes, to move warm air away from you.
Noun
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Similar to how goggles protect your peepers from chlorine (and the burning feeling that can follow after opening your eyes in a swimming pool), goggles work very well to combat onion tears, Hale says.
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The House advanced the bill codifying the peeper’s status, House Bill 5534, this week by a vote of 136-0.
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“Snoop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snoop. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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