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[snoop] / snup /




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I’d never met Ms. Simpson and never asked her or anyone else to snoop into the governor’s activities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

E2EE has been hailed by privacy experts as the best way to protect conversations from hackers, corporations and even repressive authorities trying to snoop on users.

From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026

Camryn Smith and her daughter showed up to snoop around for the deals at the Americana at Brand in Glendale early Friday morning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2025

There is something about a healthy personality that feels repelled by a snoop, a snitch, a stool pigeon, an informer.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2025

"How could you trust that snoop? He betrayed us."

From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke

Like most VPN users, Canadians use VPNs for safer torrenting, streaming foreign and local content while abroad, protecting their data on public networks, and, increasingly, to keep corporate and government snoops away from their data.

From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2026

He can be paranoid, but she snoops around a lot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026

Yet the very value proposition of VPNs rests on an internet rife with restrictions and snoops.

From Slate ● Jan. 10, 2025

Mr. Chew disputed that his app snoops on Americans.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 23, 2023

Julia often snoops in my room, but she's never discovered this hiding place.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

He spent a day and a half in the witness box on Tuesday and Wednesday answering questions about his claim that British tabloids had unlawfully snooped on his life throughout his childhood and young adulthood.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 2023

The reporters who snooped on the weekend’s wedding via binoculars might have had a better view of what they were covering.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2022

If a third party snooped, they would leave indelible evidence of their interference—like damaging a quantum wax seal.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2022

It has also been reprimanded over allegations that it snooped on former top wealth-management executive Iqbal Khan as well as being fined over bribery and fraud charges relating to the $2 billion Mozambican corruption scandal.

From Reuters ● Dec. 13, 2021

“You’re telling me you’ve never snooped around his office? Looked through his documents?”

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

Julian O’Neill investigates how the unlawful snooping was exposed.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

An ATM con that involves some snooping, some acting and some sleight-of-hand is being carried out across Southern California, police say.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026

You are likely to connect to public Wi-Fi in airports, hotels and cafes, and encrypted connections are crucial for protecting personal data and preventing snooping.

From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2025

The firm moved in the mid-1960s to a boxy two-story building with security cameras and windowless rooms, to deter rivals from snooping on toy designs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025

“More like you’re nosing around to see if anybody has anything worth stealing. Now you git out of here and stay out. I don’t want boys like you snooping around my house. Go on, now!”

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney




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