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[snoop] / snup /




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Frank Bisignano directed staff to use software to snoop in email of rivals and surveil work of employees; Bisignano, who also heads Social Security, denied he ever spied on co-workers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 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

“What did the snoop write down about you?”

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

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

Key lawmakers said no extension will be granted unless it’s coupled with major reforms and better transparency on who’s getting snooped, and why.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 13, 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

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

She snooped around the house, her eyes flitting here and there, examining every little thing.

From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor

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

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

Those traits, paired with her knack for snooping, made Harriet just like I was as a child: too curious for my own good, and prone to making mistakes because of it.

From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2025

Whoever was responsible wouldn’t want another kid snooping around.

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett


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