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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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

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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

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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