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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for voyeur
Noun
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Just two good old-fashioned American spies, the Soviet Union, the Cold War and a lot of high jinks.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
15 Jan. 2026
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Guests will join the Harpers — a heroic spy network — to foil a plot by the legendary beholder Xanathar and save the city of Waterdeep.—
Tom Tapp,
Deadline,
15 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Walkin’ around and makin’ that sound to himself sometimes, and up at night for the crickets and peepers and such.—
David Searcy,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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Thanks to some cutting-edge tech help, the actor's eyes (both of them) were even used for the mythological monster's giant peeper.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
11 Dec. 2025
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“Voyeur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/voyeur. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.
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