meddle with

Example Sentences

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Thomas Jefferson once wrote that the government shouldn’t meddle with his neighbor’s free choice so long as “it neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

While the authorities tinker with laws and competitions, they dare not meddle with the famous old Championship.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026

Public policy advocates and experts expressed concern about state lawmakers using their power to meddle with local housing projects, especially when carving out exemptions from laws they’ve imposed on everyone else in the state.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2025

But research on how infections meddle with nerves in the airway is revealing new clues.

From National Geographic • Jan. 25, 2024

“Don’t meddle with them; there’s no earthly use in it.”

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander