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as in interfering
to interest oneself in what is not one's concern
a neighbor who likes to nose around in everyone else's business
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as in dragging
to move slowly
the line to get tickets is just nosing, so we are going to be here for a while
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nosing
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The American Kennel Club says that digging is as natural to dogs as barking or sniffing.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025 -
In Season 1, someone taps out after the first night because a bear was sniffing around his camp.—
Alex Hutchinson,
Outside,
10 Sep. 2025
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Particle has also accused Epic of defaming the company and interfering in its business relations.—
Maia Pandey,
jsonline.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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The ministry said the statements violate a principle of international law that bars ambassadors from interfering in the host country’s internal affairs.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
25 Aug. 2025
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Moncur struggled for seven minutes, dragging Blaze — who was locked on her arm — to the front of the facility in search of help.—
Tony Saavedra,
Oc Register,
16 Sep. 2025
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The trends have contributed to a slump in consumer confidence, dragging on spending and threatening leaders’ official growth target for this year of around 5%.—
Nino Paoli,
Fortune,
15 Sep. 2025
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Look for male trees at garden centers, as females produce foul-smelling fruits.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
10 Sep. 2025
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Employees of Hollywood Tow called the LAPD on September 8 after smelling something foul from the car, per KTLA 5.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
9 Sep. 2025
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The last two seasons have proven that the team starts off slow, which ends up messing their chances of making the playoffs.—
James Brizuela,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Sep. 2025
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Fans catapulted themselves through the air, crawling onto the stage.—
Audrey Gibbs,
Nashville Tennessean,
16 Sep. 2025
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But the line is wildly popular—the launch of a collaboration with the street artist KAWS sparked a frenzy in China in 2019, with shoppers crawling under shutters, removing clothes from mannequins, and putting one another in headlocks to get the shirts before they were gone.—
Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Within seconds of inhaling the foul odor, the white dog springs back in disgust and hastily shuffles to the other side of the bed, as though trying to escape the smell altogether.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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Casteel suspects that long before whole-body deodorant arrived on the market, many people were using existing products in unsafe ways; in rare cases, people have died from inadvertently inhaling the gases of aerosol deodorants.—
Franklin Schneider,
The Atlantic,
16 Sep. 2025
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In 2009, Tropicana replaced its familiar logo, an orange with a straw poking out, with a minimalist design featuring a glass of orange juice.—
Nathaniel Meyersohn,
CNN Money,
13 Sep. 2025
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Routh allegedly came within a few hundred yards of Trump before a Secret Service agent spotted his rifle poking out of a tree line.—
Nadine El-Bawab,
ABC News,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Nosing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nosing. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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