snooping

present participle of snoop

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of snooping There also are characters straight from the David Lynch school of the bizarre, including the menacing figure who warns Ron to stop snooping around and the bearer of a disturbing story about a manufacturing job that requires being nude. Julie Hinds, Freep.com, 10 Oct. 2025 As Mercury and Pluto clash, snooping in someone’s business lands you in hot water. Usa Today, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025 Footage of a woman snooping in on her dogs in the dead of the night has left the internet in stitches. Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025 As the cruel fates of the criminal underworld would have it, Jake gets a text from Mel alerting him to the very New York Magazine journalist in discussion snooping around the Black Rabbit kitchen. Andy Andersen, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2025 Potential trouble arises when the wily victim of Danny’s, Pauline, starts snooping around the house, hears Danny’s voice and starts to bargain for her silence. Pete Hammond, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025 In the film, Shy is played by Jay Lycurgo, an alternately sensitive and intimidating young actor in his breakout role, and the bag doesn’t appear until midway through, when the film crew go snooping without permission in the students’ room. Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025 Why not replace snooping with sleuthing? Gina Park, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2025 To complicate matters, a suspicious landlady, Lorelai Brown (actress Pamela Britton) is always snooping around. Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snooping
Verb
  • The engineers explain that the robot’s balance and locomotion have been trained in a simulated environment with slopes, obstacles, and interfering forces, where it has been run for hundreds of thousands of virtual hours.
    Billy Perrigo, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Fiscal rules left broken Officials in Brussels are unlikely to want to appear to be interfering in domestic political affairs, but the pressure is on for Paris to embark on some serious fiscal consolidation — and fast.
    Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • The mogul then posted a clip of herself poking fun at her look while getting final touch-ups of her face mask from her glam team at the Academy Museum gala.
    Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
  • But instead, teammate Nick Cousins was poking a little fun at Pinto’s contract situation and drew some laughs, including from Pinto himself.
    Julian McKenzie, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Snooping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snooping. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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