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kibitzers

noun

variants also kibbitzers

plural of kibitzer

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. — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Dec. 2025

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Noun

Investigators later discovered that the intruders were Romanian nationals.

— Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2026
This leaves even the most secure guest room doors vulnerable to intruders.

— Jillian Dara, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of intruders

Noun

Group chats have—rightfully—earned a reputation as containers for gossips or for the airing of grievances that someone might not want to fully offer out loud to the public, and mine are not absent those things, from time to time.

— Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2026
Though the Colonel had many enemies, the violence of his death shocks the sleepy village and starts the tongues of the local gossips wagging.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 15 July 2026

Definition of gossips

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And Project Bond is joining quite the collection of spies—er, vessels—on the seas.

— Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 26 Aug. 2026
Conspiracy theories — of euthanasia, of sterilization, of American bad intentions involving CIA spies, of viruses bred in pig cells (for those who kept Halal) or monkey cells (to Hindus for whom the macaque is sacred) — were common.

— Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2026

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The interlopers were contrabandistas, Native Pacific Northwesterners brought by American merchants operating out of Hawaii and heading to the Mexican coast to hunt otters without a license.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 July 2026
And yet scores of interlopers have dropped by the page in order to try and score a miracle — or even have more nefarious plans of ripping off cinephiles.

— William Earl, Variety, 20 July 2026

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