as in to interfere
to interest oneself in what is not one's concern
please stop meddling in your sister's marriage, even though you mean well
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Recent Examples of meddle
The president of the statewide North Carolina education system publicly reprimanded UNC’s Board of Trustees for their meddling weeks after Belichick’s hiring, and temporarily stripped the board of some authority.
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The Athletic Colleges Staff, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Critics had warned that allowing Trump to fire Cook would have trampled on decades of research showing central banks function best when they're allowed to operate without meddling from politicians.
—Scott Horsley, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
However, recent polls suggest that PAS could struggle to keep its majority and may need to seek a coalition with others in the 101-seat legislature, which could provide more opportunities for meddling, said Popescu-Zamfir.
—Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
In the years before these breakdowns, the militaries in both countries were broadly opposed to meddling in politics.
—Kristina Mani, The Conversation, 23 Sep. 2025
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The Athletic Colleges Staff, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Critics had warned that allowing Trump to fire Cook would have trampled on decades of research showing central banks function best when they're allowed to operate without meddling from politicians.
—Scott Horsley, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
However, recent polls suggest that PAS could struggle to keep its majority and may need to seek a coalition with others in the 101-seat legislature, which could provide more opportunities for meddling, said Popescu-Zamfir.
—Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
In the years before these breakdowns, the militaries in both countries were broadly opposed to meddling in politics.
—Kristina Mani, The Conversation, 23 Sep. 2025
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However, the trouble starts when governments interfere and tell funds to invest too much at home, which breaks the delicate balance that fund managers have calculated between risk and reward, said Sébastien Betermier, executive director at the International Centre for Pension Management (ICPM).—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
4 Nov. 2025
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And because the actuation frequencies (between 1 and 100 kilohertz) are far below those used for clinical imaging (between 1 and 20 megahertz), the two functions don’t interfere.—
Elie Dolgin,
IEEE Spectrum,
29 Oct. 2025
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Somebody does something terrible and messes it up.—
Giana Levy,
Variety,
31 Oct. 2025
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If your smartwatch tracking every heartbeat and sleep cycle hasn’t already given you health anxiety, Kohler wants to mess you up in a new way.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Meddle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meddle. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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