Thesaurus results for INTERLOPER

interloper

noun

ˌin-tər-ˈlō-pər

as in intruder

a person who meddles in the affairs of others summer residents were regarded as interlopers who had no deep commitment to the town's welfare

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Recent Examples of interloper Most workers ignored the interloper. —

CNN Money, 17 Nov. 2025 Cale has, by that point, laid out the tropes of a typical coastal interloper’s gay fantasia of the Mountain West. —

Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2025 Last year, Vandy was a fun upstart story after upsetting Alabama, while IU was the CFP interloper in Curt Cignetti’s first season with the Hoosiers. —

Ralph D. Russo, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025 This is a novel and compelling scenario and offers a refreshing alternative to collisions from interplanetary interlopers explaining the destruction of a former Saturnian moon. —

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intruder

Noun

Security camera video captured a masked intruder on June 5, 2021, enter the couple’s home during daylight and leave hours later after sunset.

— Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 21 Feb. 2026
The law, specifically, says that a homeowner does not need to retreat from an intruder before using self-defense, but can rather use lethal force to defend themselves and their property.

— Emily Galvin Almanza, Literary Hub, 18 Feb. 2026