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
Shmi, who died for nothing, the cowardly Jedi refusing to free her, refusing to interfere.
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Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Oct. 2025
The sheriff’s office is asking locals not to interfere.
—Dennis Romero, NBC news, 21 Oct. 2025
Advisors like Rodenbush can’t interfere, Hiestand said.
—Todd Richmond, Twin Cities, 17 Oct. 2025
Weiser, Polis and the state's top water official — state engineer Jason Ullman — denied Nebraska's claims that Colorado interfered in its attempts to build the canal and denied the allegations that Colorado is not meeting the requirements of the compact.
—Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 15 Oct. 2025
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Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Oct. 2025
The sheriff’s office is asking locals not to interfere.
—Dennis Romero, NBC news, 21 Oct. 2025
Advisors like Rodenbush can’t interfere, Hiestand said.
—Todd Richmond, Twin Cities, 17 Oct. 2025
Weiser, Polis and the state's top water official — state engineer Jason Ullman — denied Nebraska's claims that Colorado interfered in its attempts to build the canal and denied the allegations that Colorado is not meeting the requirements of the compact.
—Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 15 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for interfere
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If your smartwatch tracking every heartbeat and sleep cycle hasn’t already given you health anxiety, Kohler wants to mess you up in a new way.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Oct. 2025
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The internet already messed her up pretty good.—
Alex Apatoff,
PEOPLE,
23 Sep. 2025
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Olympia is still looking for Senior’s mystery woman and decides to snoop through his Rolodex — old school!—
Dave Nemetz,
TVLine,
12 Oct. 2025
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There also are characters straight from the David Lynch school of the bizarre, including the menacing figure who warns Ron to stop snooping around and the bearer of a disturbing story about a manufacturing job that requires being nude.—
Julie Hinds,
Freep.com,
10 Oct. 2025
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Ultimately, Adams' action could result in the City Council intervening to gain greater say in the board's appointments process, which has previously been reserved to the mayor alone, Collins said in an email.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
29 Oct. 2025
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Your duty to intervene increases with the value of the object and the likelihood it will be purloined.—
Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
29 Oct. 2025
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Tom Aspinall’s heavyweight title defense at UFC 321 ended in chaos after Ciryl Gane accidentally poked him in both eyes late in the first round.—
Antonio Losada,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Oct. 2025
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Or use your finger, poking it about 2 inches into the soil.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
24 Oct. 2025
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Brennan, who was not immediately available for comment, has denied wrongdoing, especially in his role helping lead a sprawling multiagency investigation into whether Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election to help Trump defeat Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.—
Josh Meyer,
USA Today,
21 Oct. 2025
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But Trump has already indicated a willingness to meddle in the workings of media companies — and given his closeness with the Ellison clan, he’s widely expected to weigh in.—
Rohan Goswami,
semafor.com,
20 Oct. 2025
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This ruling is a chilling step toward unchecked government overreach, intruding on the most personal aspects of our private lives.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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Meanwhile, seawater intrudes like an advancing army toward thicker ice, which rests on bedrock that slopes inward toward the bowl-like center of the continent.—
Evan Howell,
Quanta Magazine,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Interfere.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interfere. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.
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