as in to interfere
to interest oneself in what is not one's concern regarded the new couple as a pair of interloping parvenus who were sure to upset the town's social hierarchy

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Recent Examples of interlope Bloom has been cast by some diehard Sox fans as an interloping budget-cutter who imperiled the franchise by letting cornerstones Mookie Betts and Xander Bogaerts get away. Bob Hohler, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023 BlackBerry suggests that spirit was killed by an influx of big business thinking, taking the form here of Canada's hulking, reigning master of intimidation, Michael Ironside, cast as the interloping COO. A.a. Dowd, Chron, 12 May 2023 Iworrigan had been off Facebook but reactivated her account to try to verify whether or not the interloping hound might be Nanuq. Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Apr. 2023 Corinne always unrolls her mat in the back corner, tries not to interlope. Rebecca Makkai, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021 Even my mother, an expert in detecting interloping odors, couldn’t catch anything. Luke Winkie, Vox, 5 Aug. 2019 And so Beyonce wanting to be in that just seemed like interloping. Joy-Ann Reid, Cosmopolitan, 13 Feb. 2018 Europeans are taught a history of migration from birth, of Greeks and Romans spreading over Europe, conquering lands, and interloping afar. Adam Rutherford, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for interlope
Verb
  • It was made clear that Zapata could not interfere in any way except for delivering a count or calling for the bell.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Five months after Donald Trump moved into the White House in 2017, a reporter asked Vladimir Putin about the allegations that Russia had interfered in U.S. elections.
    Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
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  • Leaving her alone all morning, and just when something decent is happening, messing it up.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 5 Mar. 2025
  • European leaders have messed it up in the last three years.
    Peter Aitken, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2025
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  • After the United Kingdom demanded that Apple create a backdoor that would allow government officials globally to spy on encrypted data, Apple decided to simply turn off encryption services in the UK rather than risk exposing its customers to snooping.
    Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2025
  • But in the past, spyware attacks from other providers have been found snooping on phones belonging to politicians, government staffers, and human rights activists.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 31 Jan. 2025

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“Interlope.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interlope. Accessed 16 Mar. 2025.

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