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intrusive

adjective as in obtrusive

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In most democratic countries this doesn’t tend to come with consequences much more intrusive than targeted ads.

The nose swab, if not painful, is certainly intrusive, as a Fortune reporter found out.

From Fortune

Overseen by law firm Venable, the cross-industry group identified over a dozen intrusive ad formats that the industry should seek to avoid.

From Digiday

Bahrain, Kuwait, and Norway all launched intrusive covid-19 tracing apps that “actively carry out live or near-live tracking of users’ locations by frequently uploading GPS coordinates to a central server,” Amnesty International reported in June.

Meanwhile, media giants like Google invent their own ways of managing intrusive ads.

In a message that would resonate profoundly if given today, he warned against the intrusive power of a faceless state.

This disdain stems from anger at intrusive Congressional action and feckless Congressional inaction.

“They used Sochi as a test case for a more intrusive system,” Galeotti said.

Russian communications monitoring became even more intrusive earlier this year during the Sochi winter games.

Which means that government—good old intrusive Nanny State government— must step in even more.

And at every turn intrusive social legislation must seek to prevent such injustice.

A course gneiss is the predominant rock, but is associated with garnetiferous mica-schists and much intrusive granite.

Do not think me intrusive or importunate if I now call, dear sir, on you, to remember it!'

Mr. Dempsey stood for a few seconds, and perhaps some secret suspicion crept over him that this visit might be thought intrusive.

In Chittagong, then, we must look about us for the aborigines; so intrusive have become the Hindú elements.

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On this page you'll find 38 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to intrusive, such as: invasive, nosy, forward, interfering, meddlesome, and meddling.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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