as in intruder
a person who meddles in the affairs of others
summer residents were regarded as interlopers who had no deep commitment to the town's welfare
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Nasal vaccines and shots both mobilize immune messenger cells, which gather the interlopers’ proteins and display them on their surfaces.
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Stephani Sutherland, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
Birds, in particular, have been known to leave their nests to defend against interlopers, making their eggs and chicks vulnerable to predators.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Aug. 2024
These locals aren’t interlopers of the place but products of it as much as anybody else.
—Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 31 July 2024
But Trump is no longer the interloper from New York with no political track record outside of bipartisan donations and a brief campaign for the Reform Party presidential nomination running to the left of Pat Buchanan.
—W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 July 2024
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Stephani Sutherland, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
Birds, in particular, have been known to leave their nests to defend against interlopers, making their eggs and chicks vulnerable to predators.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Aug. 2024
These locals aren’t interlopers of the place but products of it as much as anybody else.
—Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 31 July 2024
But Trump is no longer the interloper from New York with no political track record outside of bipartisan donations and a brief campaign for the Reform Party presidential nomination running to the left of Pat Buchanan.
—W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 July 2024
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“Interloper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interloper. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.
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