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snooper

noun

Definition of snooper

as in spy

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Recent Examples of snooper 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, 15 Sep. 2025

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In interviews with federal agents and later with CNN, his family dismissed the notion that Beloozerov may have been a spy.

— Isabelle Chapman, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026
Margaretha Zelle MacLeod’s stage name came to signify the epitome of the seductive female spy after she was executed by the French in 1917.

— Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of spy

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Similar to how goggles protect your peepers from chlorine (and the burning feeling that can follow after opening your eyes in a swimming pool), goggles work very well to combat onion tears, Hale says.

— Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 May 2026
The House advanced the bill codifying the peeper’s status, House Bill 5534, this week by a vote of 136-0.

— Theo Peck-Suzuki, Hartford Courant, 3 May 2026

Definition of peeper

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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology note that an intruder could replace legitimate control instructions with malicious commands.

— William Akoto, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026
Authorities are looking for help identifying the masked intruder who appeared on Guthrie's Nest doorbell camera on the night of her abduction as well as the sender of the notes.

— Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of intruder

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On 227, Williams starred as Lester Jenkins, who has his own construction company in support of his busybody wife, Mary (Gibbs), and their studious daughter, Brenda (Regina King).

— Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 16 July 2026
Since her ballerina kindergarten years, Sukihana—the rapper, reality television star, podcaster, and soon-to-be mom of four—has been a polymathic busybody.

— Meagan Jordan, VIBE.com, 10 July 2026

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