voyeur

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Recent Examples of voyeur Condoning voyeurs while blaming the victims Attitudes in China remain conservative, often to the detriment of women – such as in cases of divorce, domestic violence or upskirting, which aren’t typically treated as a priority by police, rights campaigners have long complained. Cnn Staff 20 Hr Ago, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2025 The through line is the author’s refusal to look at the Brotherhood from the outside in; Riley isn’t some voyeur watching a house on a summer night just after the lights come on. Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025 Painters across the centuries have turned this most intimate of transgressions into art, inviting viewers to become voyeurs of passion, guilt and desire. Smithsonian Magazine, 29 July 2025 Nat Ward is not a voyeur who hides his camera under a towel to take secretive snapshots of unaware subjects. Literary Hub, 22 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for voyeur
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Noun
  • Netanyahu said the country would continue trying to bring home the bodies of Israelis still being held across enemy lines, such as Eli Cohen, an Israeli spy hung in Damascus in 1965.
    NPR, NPR, 9 Nov. 2025
  • And lately, Prime’s recommendations algorithm seems to have taken a shine to it — perhaps mistaking it for a sharp spy game as its human predecessors did, or perhaps not.
    Claire McNear, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Peep Dorothy’s peepers when Wicked: For Good premieres November 21.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 5 June 2025
  • Suddenly, Riddick's effervescent peepers become their only hope for survival, if he can be bothered to help out.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 2 Apr. 2025

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“Voyeur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/voyeur. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.

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