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busybodies

noun

plural of busybody

as in intruders

a person who meddles in the affairs of others that busybody across the street is always telling me how to tend to my own garden

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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

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Dwarf mongooses deposit more territorial scent markings when a rival is detected nearby, meanwhile meerkats tend to scent mark near burrows that intruders have scoped out.

— Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 July 2026
Experts worry about potential ecological domino effects, as the intruders often compete with or eat native species and throw ecosystems off balance.

— Rylan DiGiacomo-Rapp, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 July 2026

Definition of intruders

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Though the Colonel had many enemies, the violence of his death shocks the sleepy village and starts the tongues of the local gossips wagging.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 15 July 2026
Even when Romanzy goes off on how stupid and ugly Caleb is — and gossips that his parents abandoned him because something must be wrong with him — Mary goes along with it.

— Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 11 July 2026

Definition of gossips

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The book instead focuses on Penelope’s diplomatic genius, along with her loyal women who form a network of spies for her along with a secret militia that quietly runs the island from the shadows for two decades while their men are away at war.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 July 2026
But no regime, no spies, no saboteurs have yet matched the damage that America’s own president did tonight.

— Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 17 July 2026

Definition of spies

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And yet scores of interlopers have dropped by the page in order to try and score a miracle — or even have more nefarious plans of ripping off cinephiles.

— William Earl, Variety, 20 July 2026
The tale of Odysseus’ exploits are framed around Telemachus’ mission to find answers about his father, while his mother, Penelope (Hathaway), keeps the interlopers at bay.

— Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 15 July 2026

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