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interloper

[in-ter-loh-per] / ˈɪn tərˌloʊ pər /


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You have an emotional attachment to this property, and you regard your stepmother as an interloper, inheriting a property where your own mother probably once lived.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

She’s an interloper among established thespians, a woman in her late 50s who has only just begun listening to the little voice inside her, the one begging her to step outside her comfort zone.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026

Yet O’Connor condemned RIH’s move as an underhanded gambit to “circumvent” his authority, as though he alone had a claim to litigate this dispute and McElroy was an impudent interloper.

From Slate ● May 19, 2026

As in “The Country of the Pointed Firs,” the novel is about the arrival of a worldly interloper to a remote, pastoral community.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

Magic, to him, always felt like an interloper, an uninvited guest.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill


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