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encroacher

NOUN
trespasser
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A staple of any urban transformation is the inevitable clash of old vs. new, the indigenous and the encroacher, the longtime merchants accustomed to a certain culture and the developers driving the change.

From Washington Post Oct. 31, 2015

Today, the one notable encroacher on the park's priceless real estate is the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

From Time Magazine Archive

She usually chills the encroacher with a fixed, glassy stare, but sometimes she first tolerates, then welcomes his attentions.

From Time Magazine Archive

But awfully the truant shunn'd the ground, The vagrant kept aloof, and daring Poacher; In spite of gaps that thro' the fences round Invited the encroacher.

From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood

The wedded pair must live together, she will think; and shall this hated encroacher find refuge from beggary and vileness under her roof,--be lodged and banqueted at her expense?

From Jane Talbot by Charles Brockden Brown




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