peeping Tom

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Recent Examples of peeping Tom The creepy 40-second teaser captures Danes as Aggie Wiggs and Matthew Rhys as Nile Jarvis in a montage of eerie mystery scenes, filled with death investigations, blood, and … a peeping Tom? Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for peeping Tom
Noun
  • The studio, which recently took over creative control of the spy franchise, has hired Denis Villeneuve to direct the next installment.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Our spies tell us that the 2028 Lamborghini Temerario Spyder will debut some time in 2027.
    Byron Hurd, The Drive, 16 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Fortunately, this 3-D contoured mask doesn’t mess up my makeup or put pressure on my sensitive peepers.
    Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Payton must find answers in his reading peepers; dialing up more chunk plays.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 3 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Except Leo is the opposite of a snoop.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Terrible for me, an incorrigible snoop of other people’s phones, but probably a good thing for society at large.
    David Pierce, The Verge, 28 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • In one case about a week ago, a Hollywood Hills resident suffered minor injuries when she was assaulted by burglars after the intruders were discovered in the home.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2026
  • The school has long emphasized safety preparedness, noting on its website that staff have practiced measures for handling intruders or dangerous individuals on campus.
    Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 15 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The Department’s mistake is to worry about Sarah instead of Zoë, the professional snooper.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
  • It is turned off by default—anything that can store this kind of history is something that a snooper or domestic abuser could access.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Wrestlers like Garcia and Stewart have achieved what Morrison has set his sights on, but Morrison isn’t a star gazer.
    Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 19 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • This pairing from Wildhorn worked in perfect harmony to keep gaper-gap at bay and airflow going directly from cutouts at the top of the helmet vents into the goggles.
    Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Another man asked if putting up higher barriers in the median might help with the dreaded gaper’s blocks that happen every time there’s an accident.
    Michelle L. Quinn, chicagotribune.com, 20 Oct. 2021
Noun
  • Last fall’s announcement that Amazon’s Prime Video platform would be teeing up four hours of exclusive coverage of the Masters was met with a predictable show of teeth-gnashing truculence, because how dare the Augusta brass entrust a new carveout to a digital interloper?
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Researchers spent years running increasingly sophisticated experiments to pin down the interloper.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 8 Apr. 2026

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“Peeping Tom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peeping%20Tom. Accessed 21 Apr. 2026.

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