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
  • Just this morning, DHS took violent offenders off the streets with arrests for assault, DUI, and felony stalking.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Instead of a sense of outrage leading to a search for a better solution for repeat violent offenders, her death generated calls for collective retribution and vigilante justice.
    Zeynep Tufekci, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 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
  • Our research suggests that the vast majority of Republican voters want to close loopholes that allow criminals and dangerous people to get their hands on guns.
    Gabby Giffords, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The days of letting dangerous criminals terrorize American citizens are over.
    Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • These surreal, blood-red dioramas depict the gruesome punishments awaiting sinners in the Chinese Buddhist afterlife.
    Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 14 Sep. 2025
  • An unlicensed casino grows up to be a Baptist college, one that doesn’t shy away from its sordid past, as Christ himself never shied away from a sinner.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • That kind of content always fascinated me, both sides of it, actually, the victimology and the perpetrator’s perspective.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The surprise perpetrator The documentary shows the body camera footage from the day police confronted Kendra.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As soon as he was convicted, huge numbers changed their minds and soon 58% thought felons should be able to be president.
    Sarah Stein Lubrano, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
  • In 2014, he was arrested on charges of robbery with a dangerous weapon and possession of a firearm by a felon.
    Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 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
  • Robinhood rolled out its own perp offering in the EU a month earlier and is probably looking for a way to bring it stateside.
    Nina Bambysheva, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The cops had brought in a millionaire perp and maybe for the first time ever in Norfolk County, the hackerama couldn’t fix the case.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 24 Aug. 2025

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“Trespasser.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trespasser. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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