as in interlopers
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 intruders
An hour later, four Chinese ships entered what Taiwan considers restricted waters south of Kinmen's Lieyu island, prompting Taipei to deploy four of its own coast guard vessels to intercept and monitor the intruders.
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Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
The natural world is unforgiving to intruders.
—Michael Jerome Plunkett
september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
The hope is that would-be intruders think twice.
—Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Sep. 2025
This technique bypassed traditional login protections and gave intruders long-lasting access to customer relationship management data.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Those incidents include car and business break-ins, along with multiple intruders who have entered and stolen from South End residents’ homes.
—Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 29 Aug. 2025
The other two interstellar intruders were 1I/'Oumuamua, discovered in 2017, and 2I/Borisov, detected in 2019.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 26 Aug. 2025
The brothers later called 911 and said their parents were killed by intruders.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 21 Aug. 2025
The vulnerabilities let intruders order free food, gain admin rights to marketing platforms, and dig into corporate portals.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2025
Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
The natural world is unforgiving to intruders.
—Michael Jerome Plunkett
september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
The hope is that would-be intruders think twice.
—Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Sep. 2025
This technique bypassed traditional login protections and gave intruders long-lasting access to customer relationship management data.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Those incidents include car and business break-ins, along with multiple intruders who have entered and stolen from South End residents’ homes.
—Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 29 Aug. 2025
The other two interstellar intruders were 1I/'Oumuamua, discovered in 2017, and 2I/Borisov, detected in 2019.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 26 Aug. 2025
The brothers later called 911 and said their parents were killed by intruders.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 21 Aug. 2025
The vulnerabilities let intruders order free food, gain admin rights to marketing platforms, and dig into corporate portals.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intruders
Noun
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The marine interlopers clogged the cooling water intake systems at the Gravelines facility in northern France late Sunday, triggering an automatic halt to three reactors.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Aug. 2025
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In a rural community like this, are new arrivals nearly always going to be seen as interlopers by locals?—
Cressida Leyshon,
New Yorker,
10 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Set during the Great Depression, a Milwaukee detective’s quest to find a Wisconsin cheese heiress lands him in Hungary and on a collision course with history to meet Nazis, spies, and swing musicians in the octogenarian literary giant’s first novel in over a decade.—
Tomi Obaro,
Vulture,
9 Sep. 2025
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The duo plays Emily and Matt, a married pair of ex-CIA spies forced out of retirement and back into the world of espionage after their secret identities are revealed.—
Jacqueline Weiss,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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Sanders, in a motion to the court, accused the initial prosecutor in the case, Tony Rackauckas, of manipulating evidence dealing with jailhouse informants.—
Tony Saavedra,
Oc Register,
17 Sep. 2025
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Kentucky's vast wilderness and mountainous regions served as hideaways for bootleggers, Rein said, while the government used paid informants to sniff them out.—
Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
16 Sep. 2025
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Keyboard busybodies, naturally, expressed their unsolicited opinions in the comments section.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
19 Aug. 2025
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“Intruders.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intruders. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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