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“These are attempts to interfere, to meddle in Mexican politics,” Sheinbaum said at her regular morning news conference.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

"When you meddle with loyalty schemes, you do so at your peril," Shuttleworth warns.

From BBC ● May 10, 2026

Araghi said he wasn’t concerned that Israel or the United States would meddle in the future of Iran.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2026

When Monroe declared the Americas off limits to “future colonization by any European powers,” the U.S. didn’t really have the means or motive to meddle abroad.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026

"I no longer meddle in the affairs of the gods, and they do me the same courtesy."

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

And in the brain, it meddles with connections between brain cells, resulting in “fuzzy thinking.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024

However, as Noah meddles in Howie's affairs, obstacles arise for the potential couple.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2022

Several former internal- affairs commanders and detectives also have claimed Urquhart bullies investigators and meddles in deputy misconduct probes, raising fairness concerns.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 3, 2017

I don’t want to be the mom who meddles with her son’s happiness, but am I right to be concerned?

From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2014

And why should the Amazon who wields the pen, be more gently dealt with than she who meddles with cold iron?

From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Robert Walsh

Middle Eastern countries have long meddled in Africa, jostling for influence in the most strategic parts of the continent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026

"He was well known for protecting all of his artists from the BBC executives, making sure they weren't meddled with," said Mr Baldwin.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025

Among other things, last week she reached out and meddled in a case over which she had no jurisdiction, plucking the matter back from the appeals court where it was properly pending.

From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2025

For a while CNN was owned by AT&T. I interacted directly with the CEO of AT&T, and in my experience he never meddled with our with our truthful news coverage.

From Salon ● Nov. 14, 2023

He then went on to disclaim that “any person who knew either of us could possibly believe that either meddled in that dirty work.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum accused the U.S. of meddling in Mexico’s internal affairs after a report about two Mexican governors who had their U.S. visas revoked amid probes into possible links to organized crime.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

"I am against any country in the world meddling and exercising political interference," he said last month.

From Barron's ● May 6, 2026

On the hard-news side, she bungled big moments like an interview with Vladimir Putin, who batted away her questions about 2016 election meddling with an exasperated performance of ignorance.

From Slate ● May 6, 2026

‘Project Hail Mary’ gets a soaring film adaptation, Steve Carell plays a meddling dad, Amanda Peet stars in an off-beat dramedy, and much, much more.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

There was less meddling from the lawmakers and abolitionists down south, the planters saw to that.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead