busybodies

plural of busybody

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Recent Examples of busybodies Keyboard busybodies, naturally, expressed their unsolicited opinions in the comments section. Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for busybodies
Noun
  • Both of those boxes were emptied and gone, which led Sainz to believe the intruders likely shoved all of the guinea pigs into the two boxes.
    Alexandra Hardle, AZCentral.com, 27 Sep. 2025
  • There are no support groups for people who've killed intruders.
    Heidi Yewman, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This approach sparks a heated debate about proper justice, leading to the revelation of other secret desires between the two spies.
    Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Gary Oldman stars as the curmudgeonly Jackson Lamb, who leads MI5, a unit full of low-level spies that includes Jack Lowden’s River Cartwright.
    Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The object is named for its status as one of three interstellar interlopers ever discovered in our cosmic neighborhood, as well as the telescope that spotted it.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
  • At that point, the business forfeited its future to tech interlopers.
    Roy Trakin, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Busybodies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/busybodies. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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