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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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Experts worry about potential ecological domino effects, as the intruders often compete with or eat native species and throw ecosystems off balance.

— Rylan DiGiacomo-Rapp, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 July 2026
Today’s intruders rarely smash through the front entrance.

— Scott Alldridge, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026

Definition of intruders

Noun

To Robby and Michael, suddenly seeing their parents in the news again as spies was painful.

— Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 10 July 2026
Reddick loads her genre-blurring tale with outlandish intrigue involving Soviet spies, a capitalist cult and a roving choir that doubles as a Greek chorus.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026

Definition of spies

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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.

— Jessica Kiang, Variety, 16 June 2026
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.

— Gennaro Tomma, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2026

Definition of interlopers

Noun

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
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.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026

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