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
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
"I'd probably go up to them and say, 'Have you heard about the ban?' I'd rather be up front than snoop on a neighbour."
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2025
Mr. Curtain suspected another snoop on the island—that was why he’d changed the door codes, after all.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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
Similarly, virtual private networks hide your Internet activity from snoops, but they also can log it.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2022
Julia often snoops in my room, but she's never discovered this hiding place.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
Prosecutors allege that he also snooped on Chinese dissidents in Germany.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2024
For eight years they snooped on 182 nests, checking them every few days during the breeding season.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 1, 2023
It’s one of three alleging tabloids unlawfully snooped on the prince in their cutthroat competition for scoops on the royal family.
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
As the Object dressed, I snooped around the bedroom.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
While snooping around the app a few weeks ago, I noticed a friend of mine had logged a film I’d never heard of, a little Tubi Original called “Hag.”
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2026
Partway through the 1965 film “The Ipcress File,” Harry Palmer returns home to find a young, female colleague snooping around his apartment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 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
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
And ever since Cletus came snooping around Ob’s old Chevy last November, Ob and me know about them, too.
From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant
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