interloper
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You have an emotional attachment to this property, and you regard your stepmother as an interloper, inheriting a property where your own mother probably once lived.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
She’s an interloper among established thespians, a woman in her late 50s who has only just begun listening to the little voice inside her, the one begging her to step outside her comfort zone.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
Setup: Woody, a pull-string doll from the 1950s and the favorite of his owner Andy, feels threatened by the newfangled interloper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
Yet O’Connor condemned RIH’s move as an underhanded gambit to “circumvent” his authority, as though he alone had a claim to litigate this dispute and McElroy was an impudent interloper.
From Slate ● May 19, 2026
An interloper, like a rodent that had chewed through the wall.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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