trespasser

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Recent Examples of trespasser One night, when Jeffrey is cleaning himself in the sink, the store’s manager (Peter Dinklage) shows up and encounters the naked trespasser. Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025 The papers said the sheriff was taking a trespasser to court who’d lived in a tree for 10 years. Denver Post, 11 Aug. 2025 New security measures come as the Department of Public Safety conducts an internal review of the circumstances that led to a trespasser gaining access to the Capitol. Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trespasser
Noun
  • But equally important is to give the offender the benefit of the doubt.
    Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Among the offenders are Troy Franklin, Garett Bolles and Luke Wattenberg.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In Capitol Reef’s considerable backcountry–as in all underfunded national parks and monuments— staffing does not allow for constant patrolling to apprehend and ticket wrongdoers.
    Stephen Trimble, Denver Post, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Maryland continues to maintain a civil justice system that favors wrongdoers instead of people innocently injured due to negligence.
    Bruce M. Plaxen, Baltimore Sun, 12 July 2025
Noun
  • To suggest that another candidate’s supporters are criminals — particularly when that candidate is, by all measures, poised to win at least a plurality of votes in the city — does not seem like a recipe for earning New Yorkers’ support.
    New York Times, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Binance also lacked protocols — standard for financial services companies — to report transactions for money laundering risks, according to the Justice Department, and employees were well aware that such an oversight would invite criminals to the platform.
    Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As a sinner, I am only saved through His grace and mercy.
    Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Like Scorsese’s work, Miller’s documentary is both big and small, local and global, and dense with sinners and saints alike.
    Vulture Staff, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The cases feel grounded in real life and have texture beyond the basic facts, motive and perpetrator.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
  • In Bohn's case, after he was contacted on Facebook, the perpetrator persuaded him to move the conversation to Telegram.
    Molly Beck, jsonline.com, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Cullen, the federal judge in Charlotte, reduced McClure’s sentence on his guilty plea of possessing a firearm as a felon.
    Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Langworthy has been charged with murder, possessing a firearm and ammunition as a felon and having an assault weapon later discovered during a search of his home, according to court records.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Some of the lawbreakers reportedly jumped on the hood of the police car, which was then hit with fireworks before catching fire.
    Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Very little creates more comfort for citizens and discomfort for criminals than the threat of lawbreakers getting caught.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Proctor is one of the perps in Plymouth, and a victim in Norfolk.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Olivia Benson will hug a victim and knock out a perp all before lunch.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025

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“Trespasser.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trespasser. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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