pry

And whoever has access to that information has the extraordinary ability to pry into a person’s private life.

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026

Whoever is given the job of informing him of that had better take a handful of sedatives and a crowbar to pry the president off the wall of the Oval Office.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2026

Perez’s case is one of several in which the Civilian Oversight Commission has tried unsuccessfully to pry records out of the Sheriff’s Department.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026

We asked some parenting experts for their tips on how to pry those phones away from their offspring's hands – even if only for a short while.

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026

I pry the sides of the face mask away easily and pull upward.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

Spot gold pries are down 5% at $4,616 a troy ounce while silver is down 7.8% at $78.18 an ounce.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026

Concerned, she visits a doctor, and when the specialist pries the welt open, hundreds of small spiders crawl out.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 12, 2024

U.S. oil and gas production, however, is on track to reach record highs in 2023 and 2024 due in part to rising oil pries.

From Reuters ● Sep. 18, 2023

He doesn't last long, though, because Laszlo pries the truth out of him.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2023

Another pries the scim from her hand and the bow from her back, shrieking in elation as the weapons drop to the dunes.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

In 1947, after reports of strong odors were reported, a huge crowd on the street watched as police and city officials pried their way inside to look for the brothers’ bodies.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026

In most cases the “mummy portraits”—as the paintings are called—came to be pried or detached from the full mummy by excavators, archaeologists or thieves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

The copper pirates have pried heavy metal plates from sidewalks to access underground lines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2025

Gilbert’s book has pried open a feminist door that felt long slammed shut.

From Slate ● May 12, 2025

I’d just pried him off me with my bare hands.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña

"The deportation machine has kind of turned more surgical, so to speak. There's less activity in the cities where there's a lot more prying eyes," Budiandri said.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

All your traffic is routed through a remote server, masking your IP address and shielding your online activity from prying eyes.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

But will prying eyes across the interwebs ever learn the whole story?

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026

However, because it sits in a gated parcel, it provides residents ample privacy, further amplified by the surrounding trees, which create a natural barrier from prying eyes.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 17, 2026

Whenever Weedy gets an hour alone and away from prying goblin eyes, he goes into a kind of trance and then imagines what he wants to show us, whatever he’s seen.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin