trespasser

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Recent Examples of trespasser 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
  • Many state and local leaders, including the governor, have argued the bed shortage and overcrowding lead to dangerous offenders being released early from prison, creating risks for the public.
    Penny Weaver, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2025
  • According to Bates, there were between 5,000 and 6,000 such offenders in the city.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • So, people may feel compelled to condemn the wrongdoer to restore a sense of justice.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • The show portrays Watkins introducing Gein to the story of Ilse Koch, a real-life Holocaust war criminal.
    JR Radcliffe, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • On Tuesday, a total of 300 federal agents stormed a South Side apartment building that Department of Homeland Security officials say harbored criminals.
    Laura Daniella Sepulveda, AZCentral.com, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • These surreal, blood-red dioramas depict the gruesome punishments awaiting sinners in the Chinese Buddhist afterlife.
    Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • By 2022, when a somewhat parallel atrocity took place in Buffalo, New York, involving a racially motivated mass shooting, the perpetrator’s livestream was quickly detected and shut down.
    John Wihbey, Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025
  • In the cases where four or more people were killed, every perpetrator was a man in his 20s to 40s, with an average age of 32.
    James Densley, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Stryker also faces a charge of possession of a dangerous weapon by a person under 18 and Sonneman is charged with possession of a firearm by a felon.
    Cathy Kozlowicz, jsonline.com, 4 Oct. 2025
  • He was also convicted of being a persistent felon.
    Leo Bertucci, Louisville Courier Journal, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The world is hearing our message that America’s borders are closed to lawbreakers.
    Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 2 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Olivia Benson will hug a victim and knock out a perp all before lunch.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Olivia Benson will hug a victim and knock out a perp all before lunch.
    Yamillah Hurtado, People.com, 15 Sep. 2025

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“Trespasser.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trespasser. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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