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interlope

[in-ter-lohp, in-ter-lohp] / ˌɪn tərˈloʊp, ˈɪn tərˌloʊp /


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Strangers interlope for a moment, and change destinies, coming out for a day, from nothing, and going to nowhere, but marring and misshaping everything.

From Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio by A. G. Riddle

Not here do human structures interlope The fir to rival, or the pine-tree's claim, The soul may revel in poetic flame Upon yon mountain's green and gentle slope.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell

Idle Hope       And dire Remembrance interlope,   To vex the feverish slumbers of the mind:   The bubble floats before, the spectre stalks behind.

From Poems of Coleridge by Arthur Symons

Idle Hope, And dire Remembrance, interlope, And vex the feverish slumbers of the mind: The bubble floats before: the spectre stalks behind.

From Gryll Grange by Thomas Love Peacock

Idle hope And dire remembrance interlope To vex the feverish slumbers of the mind: The bubble floats before, the spectre stalks behind.’

From The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) by Charles Greville

“And Her Mother Came Too,” a song in “Dancing Honeymoon,” prompted incidents where a dancer as mother kept interloping and stressed the work’s pervasive dynamics of odd numbers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

But announced several months after Beyoncé's win, some have seen it as a sign of discontent over her apparent interloping on the country-music space.

From BBC Jan. 30, 2026

Sophisticated, experienced firms like Boston Beer Company hardly know what to do about the now-struggling hard-seltzer market, but Happy Dad and its interloping founders are thriving.

From Salon Nov. 22, 2024

Was I having so much trouble dating women because I was just a run-of-the-mill straight interloping fraud, and the real queer community could tell?

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 27, 2023

If he frankly avowed his identity, Lovely was bound to say no more about it, but did the interloping young Jackanapes know the heroine of the affair?—he had danced with her once that night.

From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie




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