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snoopers

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plural of snooper

as in spies

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Slow Horses stars Oldman as Lamb, a brilliant but cantankerous leader of dysfunctional spies who have made career-ending mistakes and end up at a dumping ground MI5 unit known as Slough House.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2026
Swashbuckling adventures and war epics proliferated in the ’30s and ’40s, while things took a turn toward spies, cops, assassins, and sci-fi in later generations.

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Aug. 2026

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The interlopers were contrabandistas, Native Pacific Northwesterners brought by American merchants operating out of Hawaii and heading to the Mexican coast to hunt otters without a license.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 July 2026
And yet scores of interlopers have dropped by the page in order to try and score a miracle — or even have more nefarious plans of ripping off cinephiles.

— William Earl, Variety, 20 July 2026

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The rubberneckers who gather across the street are represented by crowd noise, and at one point a handful of cops stalk down the aisles of the theater, guns pointed right at Sonny.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 31 Mar. 2026
So Wembanyama naturally decided to toy with his rubberneckers.

— Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Mar. 2026

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