snoop
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ADS-B gave them an instant high-tech snoop tool, including the ability to claim owners are registering planes in one place but parking them elsewhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 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 or a snitch.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2025
Instead, I decided to snoop through all of his personal belongings in our room.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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
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
She snoops to conquer in “Harriet the Spy,” a new animated series based on the classic children’s novel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2021
British spy Jacobus van Zandt snoops through papers in the desk of American agent Silas Deane in Paris.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
For eight years they snooped on 182 nests, checking them every few days during the breeding season.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 1, 2023
The case is the first of the Duke of Sussex’s several lawsuits against the media to go to trial, and one of three alleging tabloid publishers unlawfully snooped on him.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 5, 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
The authors speculate it was perhaps high-altitude reconnaissance planes flying at 6 miles high that often snooped over Benghazi.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2022
I asked, “Would it be OK if I snooped around your apartment?”
From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer
Drawing on facts and clues that Kaede learns from the news and her own snooping, Grandfather ponders solutions in the sanctuary of his library.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 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
And for bears that keep snooping around houses or livestock, there are ways of hazing that don’t involve dogs chasing them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2025
Sometimes animal activists come snooping around, Mark said: “We do things differently, and some people don’t understand.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2024
That wasn’t the real reason she was snooping, though.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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