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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

This leaves even the most secure guest room doors vulnerable to intruders.

— Jillian Dara, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2026
In June 2025, Lopez, while experiencing paranoia after using methamphetamine and believing intruders were trying to break into his Arlington apartment, fired the gunshots into his neighbor’s home, the DA’s office said.

— Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 July 2026

Definition of intruders

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Slow Horses stars Oldman as Lamb, a brilliant but cantankerous leader of dysfunctional spies who have made career-ending mistakes and end up at a dumping ground MI5 unit known as Slough House.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2026
Swashbuckling adventures and war epics proliferated in the ’30s and ’40s, while things took a turn toward spies, cops, assassins, and sci-fi in later generations.

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 14 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

Definition of interlopers

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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
Even when Romanzy goes off on how stupid and ugly Caleb is — and gossips that his parents abandoned him because something must be wrong with him — Mary goes along with it.

— Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 11 July 2026

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