meddle

Araghi said he wasn’t concerned that Israel or the United States would meddle in the future of Iran.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2026

While the authorities tinker with laws and competitions, they dare not meddle with the famous old Championship.

From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026

California and Oregon last year enacted similar laws to punish corporate investors that meddle in healthcare decisions at medical providers they own.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

Public policy advocates and experts expressed concern about state lawmakers using their power to meddle with local housing projects, especially when carving out exemptions from laws they’ve imposed on everyone else in the state.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2025

“I told you, they will not meddle in human affairs.”

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

And in the brain, it meddles with connections between brain cells, resulting in “fuzzy thinking.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024

He has argued that the court meddles in his mandate and reminded the military that, in a democracy, it is subordinate to the elected government.

From Reuters ● Aug. 14, 2023

In "Sleepless in Seattle," a child meddles in his widower-dad's romantic life to literally force him to meet with a woman he shouldn't have had to be forced to meet.

From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2022

I’ve been on a bunch of different staffs where a head coach meddles a lot during game day and he ends up making it even more chaotic.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2021

Hen′-house, a house, coop, or shelter for fowls; Hen′-huss′y, a man who meddles with women's affairs; Hen′-mould, a black, spongy soil; Hen′nery, a place where fowls are kept.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Mr. Petro meddled anyway, in speeches and on social media.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

Among other things, last week she reached out and meddled in a case over which she had no jurisdiction, plucking the matter back from the appeals court where it was properly pending.

From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2025

This report shows sub-postmasters' accounts were meddled with "on an industrial scale", he said.

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2024

For a while CNN was owned by AT&T. I interacted directly with the CEO of AT&T, and in my experience he never meddled with our with our truthful news coverage.

From Salon ● Nov. 14, 2023

“The girl twin. I, uh, once had a friend with that name. Anyhow, before Rita meddled with things, the Spirit Medium intended to send you home. He doesn’t like you, and he doesn’t like that.”

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum accused the U.S. of meddling in Mexico’s internal affairs after a report about two Mexican governors who had their U.S. visas revoked amid probes into possible links to organized crime.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

On the hard-news side, she bungled big moments like an interview with Vladimir Putin, who batted away her questions about 2016 election meddling with an exasperated performance of ignorance.

From Slate ● May 6, 2026

He ultimately departed after a dispute encompassing transfers, his salary and what was perceived as medical department meddling in his use of players.

From BBC ● May 6, 2026

To protect the government’s cash cow, politicians avoided meddling in PdVSA, which was run by highly trained engineers and other professionals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026

Worse than that, if left in that time period for too long, they would inevitably become Butterflies themselves, meddling with the ebb and flow of time by their very presence.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin