as in intruders
a person who meddles in the affairs of others
a meddler who stayed up all night watching the neighbors
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Today’s intruders rarely smash through the front entrance.
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In contrast to his wife, Joseph was calm, polite, careful not to do anything to upset the intruders.
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On Stranger Things, Harbour played police chief Jim Hopper, the surrogate father to Brown's telekinetic teen Eleven, and the new drama from A24 and Netflix finds them as estranged father-daughter spies.
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The District of Columbia's most affluent suburb is McLean, home to diplomats and spies.
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Keyboard busybodies, naturally, expressed their unsolicited opinions in the comments section.
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But pretty soon the two interlopers into this small, grudge-holding but tight-knit community — the kind where, going back generations, everybody not only knows but is mightily resentful of everyone else’s business — develop a kind of outsider kinship.
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An analysis of the recordings showed that the parents behaved aggressively toward the divers more often when the human interlopers were staring at the offspring or the parent, compared with when the diver was looking in another direction or completely turned away.
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The piece contends that while rumors circulated among political gossips and online, these remained unsubstantiated whispers that did not meet journalism’s evidentiary threshold for publication.
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Local gossips claimed that Chin Ming Tai paid Moy Sing a bride price of $20,000, an astronomical sum for the time.
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Jessica Simpson has gotten used to gossipers gossiping about her private life.
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“Meddlers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meddlers. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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