Thesaurus results for MEDDLERS

meddlers

noun

plural of meddler

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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Recent Examples of meddlers But Lighton doesn’t treat them as sitcom-ish meddlers. — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2026

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Noun

People often talk about illnesses like cancer as intruders in the house.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2026
That fear is warranted, unfortunately, as more and more horror stories of intruders are coming to light.

— Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of intruders

Noun

Oasis featured for the first time in a Saturday Night Live UK cold open over the weekend, with the Gallagher brothers revealing themselves as Russian spies after almost convincing Prime Minister Andy Burnham to join them.

— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2026
The ruling leaves one of the country’s top tech firms branded with the kind of label once reserved for foreign companies suspected of helping spies.

— Ian Duncan, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of spies

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At the time, my editor and I were assuming that the fandom would be hostile to interlopers who didn’t possess the ancient knowledge of Andi self-eliminating rather than spending one more minute with Juan Pablo.

— Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026
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

Definition of interlopers

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For an adolescent navigating friendships, rejection, identity and belonging, something that never judges them or gossips and is always available can be incredibly compelling.

— Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2026
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

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