as in interfered
to interest oneself in what is not one's concern
a private investigator snooping around the abandoned warehouse
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Recent Examples of snooped
Untrustworthy employees There have been cases where employees at security companies snooped through camera feeds.
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 14 Dec. 2025
Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 14 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snooped
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With too many possible paths through memory, competing features and priorities interfered, which meant no retrieval strategy gained control — none were selected — so the search couldn’t begin.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
23 Oct. 2025
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But a thing called the Civil War interfered.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
16 Oct. 2025
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The internet already messed her up pretty good.—
Alex Apatoff,
PEOPLE,
23 Sep. 2025
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The internet already messed her up pretty good.—
Charles Trepany,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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Whoopi Goldberg, Emily Blunt and Natasha Lyonne were among the stars expressing their outrage, while Ryan Reynolds poked fun at Tilly in his new Mint Mobile ad.—
Diana Lodderhose,
Deadline,
7 Nov. 2025
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Low branches poked at the roof of our boat and brushed our arms.—
Idra Novey,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Snooped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snooped. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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