variants
also kibbitzers
as in intruders
a person who meddles in the affairs of others
a nosy kibitzer who always knows who is dating whom
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Recent Examples of kibitzers
At times, a dozen kibitzers looked on.
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IEEE Spectrum, 11 Dec. 2025
IEEE Spectrum, 11 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kibitzers
Noun
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Their adult son had been in the home with them and made the 911 call while hiding from the intruders.—
Bay Area News Group,
Mercury News,
6 Feb. 2026
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According to police, one of the intruders, wearing a ski mask and a black hooded sweatshirt, was allegedly armed with a handgun.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
4 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Hometown gossips and lonely girls to the front.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Jan. 2026
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Internet gossips are increasingly spreading unfounded rumors that the couple is in distress.—
Francesca Chambers,
USA Today,
13 Dec. 2025
Noun
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The Americans stars Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell as Soveit spies posing as an American family during the Cold War.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Jan. 2026
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One worker joined the FBI and made a career in counterintelligence, sniffing out Chinese spies.—
Hanna Rosin,
The Atlantic,
22 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Owing to its wealth, the county had caught the attention of political interlopers in the past.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
21 Jan. 2026
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The viewer has long since started to wonder why Farr didn’t set his sights on another Le Carré yarn, or simply started fresh in Colombia without the need for British interlopers.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
11 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Keyboard busybodies, naturally, expressed their unsolicited opinions in the comments section.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
19 Aug. 2025
Noun
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But Lighton doesn’t treat them as sitcom-ish meddlers.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
30 Jan. 2026
Noun
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And so every regime invests in having student informers.—
Anne Applebaum,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2026
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Security services also rely on informers to tell them who might be using Starlink, and search internet and social media traffic for signs it has been used.—
David Rising,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Jan. 2026
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“Kibitzers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kibitzers. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
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