as in spy
a person who meddles in the affairs of others
an inveterate intruder, he needs to get a life
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Recent Examples of intruder
There were allegations — none of them substantiated — that might have supported Ted's original claim about intruders.
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Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 17 May 2026
The intruder tied a rope around Idalina’s wrists and ankles.
—Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
The good news is that the airport’s CEO, Phil Washington, said that the airport’s perimeter alarm system did detect the intruder a few minutes before the crash.
—The Denver Post Editorial Board, Denver Post, 13 May 2026
The collision underscores the longstanding challenge of keeping intruders out of major airports such as Denver’s, which sprawls across 53 square miles, twice the size of Manhattan.
—Mead Gruver, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
Hotel security footage captured Secret Service officers drawing their weapons moments later, and a subsequent clip indicates that the intruder was captured before reaching a staircase leading down to the event.
—Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2026
After fleeing the home, the intruders allegedly regrouped with Dukes, Khiell Dukes, Anthony Ramsey and others to divide the spoils, the indictment states.
—Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 29 Apr. 2026
Her husband, Paul Pelosi, was attacked by a hammer-wielding intruder in their home in 2022.
—Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 26 Apr. 2026
Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 17 May 2026
The intruder tied a rope around Idalina’s wrists and ankles.
—Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
The good news is that the airport’s CEO, Phil Washington, said that the airport’s perimeter alarm system did detect the intruder a few minutes before the crash.
—The Denver Post Editorial Board, Denver Post, 13 May 2026
The collision underscores the longstanding challenge of keeping intruders out of major airports such as Denver’s, which sprawls across 53 square miles, twice the size of Manhattan.
—Mead Gruver, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
Hotel security footage captured Secret Service officers drawing their weapons moments later, and a subsequent clip indicates that the intruder was captured before reaching a staircase leading down to the event.
—Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2026
After fleeing the home, the intruders allegedly regrouped with Dukes, Khiell Dukes, Anthony Ramsey and others to divide the spoils, the indictment states.
—Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 29 Apr. 2026
Her husband, Paul Pelosi, was attacked by a hammer-wielding intruder in their home in 2022.
—Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 26 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intruder
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Marrakchi, who has also directed episodes of such TV series as French spy thriller The Bureau and Damien Chazelle’s The Eddy, returns to Cannes’ Un Certain Regard program, where her 2005 feature debut Marock, about a Muslim-Jewish romance in Casablanca, also premiered.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
14 May 2026
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Cuban officials later confirmed the spy director's visit in an official statement.—
Nick Penzenstadler,
USA Today,
14 May 2026
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The other possibility is that the aggressive dove was an interloper and was trying to claim the nesting site as part of its territory.—
Joan Morris,
Mercury News,
4 May 2026
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One involves a séance for Mary held by a mysterious interloper named Imogen (FKA Twigs), whose revelations send the singer into self-harming conniptions.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
16 Apr. 2026
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Celebrity gossiper Rob Shuter reported that the two recently let go of a number of their staff.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
3 Sep. 2025
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Her staff figured out how to get rid of the gossiper.—
Ronda Racha Penrice,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Aug. 2025
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Nelly herself is heavily reinterpreted by Fennell, imagined in this film as the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat who serves as Cathy’s maid; the film also runs with modern readings of her character as a more proactive meddler in the doomed love between the main characters.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
13 Feb. 2026
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The factory owners called her a meddler and insisted that the cost of protecting workers would destroy American industry.—
Michelle A. Williams,
STAT,
2 Feb. 2026
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The only reason anybody learned about it was the informant’s guilty plea.—
Lars Daniel,
Forbes.com,
14 May 2026
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Lea Garofalo Lea Garofalo was an Italian civilian informant whose break with the ’Ndrangheta ended in her murder.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
13 May 2026
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Advertisement For an invertebrate, Marcellus is quite the busybody.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
8 May 2026
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Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman starred, with Ives and Madeleine Sherwood, as Brick’s busybody sister-in-law, reprising their stage roles.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
21 Apr. 2026
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And so every regime invests in having student informers.—
Anne Applebaum,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2026
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The whole family is deeply involved in the revolutionary movement: the oldest son disappears into Siberia, never to be seen or heard of again, while the youngest, eighteen, is jailed together with his father, and executed after his cell is exposed by an informer.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
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