obtrude
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The amount of stuff accumulating began to reach out from behind the store and obtrude into plain view; the amount of stuff disappearing from their properties was increasing.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026
But a producing interest can obtrude on the artistic process by imposing artificial deadlines and prioritizing the needs of the theater over the work itself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2022
No such doubts obtrude upon the archaic fantasy world set up by the writers in the catalog to this show.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are not shared by many of my friends, and I do not obtrude them.
From White Fire by Oxenham, John
If they are nothing to you, why in heaven's name obtrude them on us?'
From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Weyman, Stanley J.
He sometimes obtruded on what he described with a bestowing air, but that constant presence, which could feel undisciplined and unmedical, was requisite to his particular brand of intimacy.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 4, 2015
Yet the barrier of language and the unfamiliarity of a charm that has fathomless depths but no tumult had obtruded themselves.
From Time Magazine Archive
Into this grave situation another factor obtruded itself last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. Danvers never obtruded herself, but I was aware of her continually.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
When Sylvia did come down at last, Dorothy was nearly sure that she had been crying, and the mystery of her origin once more obtruded itself.
From The Vanity Girl by MacKenzie, Compton
She shared her son's political successes only from a distance, never obtruding herself into his spotlight.
From Time Magazine Archive
That is the thesis of Author Hilton's circumstantial Ill Wind: without ever obtruding himself or appearing to state a case, he makes it brilliantly clear how far a single action can fling its consequences.
From Time Magazine Archive
I tried not to look at it, but it kept obtruding at the corners of my vision.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
That this scene should come back to her now, obtruding itself in the middle of the marriage service, struck her as portentous.
From The Stronger Influence by Young, F.E. Mills
He cannot bear to see it obtruding itself upon the public.
From The Gentle Reader by Crothers, Samuel McChord
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