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
  • Conversely, the percentage of respondents who think juvenile offenders should be treated like adults has fallen from 65% in 2000 to a record-low 41% this year, the report said.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 10 Nov. 2025
  • East Lansing's ordinance states that anyone found in violation will be issued a $25 fine for first time offenders.
    Eric Guzmán, Freep.com, 10 Nov. 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
  • In other court cases, some civil and some criminal, involving a total of nearly 300 additional hectares near Vlora, Shehu and his family members are accused of grabbing property through similar forgeries.
    Lindita Cela, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The trio has a surprisingly good theory about the implosion of the makeshift Astral Pulse; seems like Shroud never found the original, and someone has been outfitting low-level criminals with bootlegs that are going awry like Robert’s.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 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
  • But as Sollima noted to TIME, no perpetrator has been sentenced for all eight double homicides, and the initial suspects sent police in circles while the bodies kept piling up.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Advertisement The perpetrator of the attack is also never identified, an ambiguity that screenwriter Noah Oppenheim (The Maze Runner, Jackie) said was intended to prevent any audience scapegoating.
    Megan McCluskey, Time, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Prosecutors have charged the man with burglary, peeking while loitering, invasion of privacy, possession of a firearm by a felon; possession of ammunition by a felon and unlawful entry on a property.
    Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Edmondson was convicted of murder and possession of firearm by a serious violent felon following a two-day trial last month, according to the prosecutor's office.
    Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 29 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 18 Nov. 2025.

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