as in to mess
to interest oneself in what is not one's concern
a strong resentment of outsiders who attempted to interfere with their traditional ways of doing things
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Recent Examples of interfere
The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran undertake to respect each other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and to refrain from interfering in each other’s internal affairs.
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Mabinty Quarshie,
The Washington Examiner,
17 June 2026
The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran undertake to respect each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity and to refrain from interfering in each other's internal affairs.
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Kathryn Watson,
CBS News,
17 June 2026
The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States undertake to respect each other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and to refrain from interfering in each other’s internal affairs.
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Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
17 June 2026
But a thing called the Civil War interfered.
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Maximilíano Durón,
ARTnews.com,
12 June 2026
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Mabinty Quarshie,
The Washington Examiner,
17 June 2026
The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran undertake to respect each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity and to refrain from interfering in each other's internal affairs.
—
Kathryn Watson,
CBS News,
17 June 2026
The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States undertake to respect each other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and to refrain from interfering in each other’s internal affairs.
—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
17 June 2026
But a thing called the Civil War interfered.
—
Maximilíano Durón,
ARTnews.com,
12 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for interfere
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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.
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Bielsa admitted to ordering others to snoop on every opposition team throughout the season and paid the £200,000 fine from his own pocket.
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While authorities snooped around, the charity’s fundraising expenses declined, dropping from $384,000 in 2016 to $111,000 in 2017.
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Donaldson’s wife, Eleanor Donaldson, was found to have aided and abetted her husband’s offenses for witnessing the abuse and doing nothing to intervene.
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This means dense lanes of intervening galactic dust block our view, significantly dimming Terzan 5's apparent brightness.
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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.
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For all his reputation as a control freak who meddled in every detail of every product at Apple, Jobs largely kept his hands off Pixar’s creative process.
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The story is untethered from reality in a way that's ridiculously charming—think the hijinks levels of Weekend at Bernie's paired with a whodunnit plot line plus a whole slew of meddling, larger-than-life characters.
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But getting out of military service remains controversial in South Korea, and last week, a minor scandal intruded on the usual rhythms of the World Cup.
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The nonstop attention-seeking of our current president threatens to intrude on the day.
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“Interfere.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interfere. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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