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pried
verb as in interfere in someone else's business
Example Sentences
It is delicious, yes, but it is even more delicious when the consumer has pried into its history and process a bit.
The Daily Pic: In 1988, Lynne Cohen showed pictures that pried the lid off reality.
If those beliefs can be pried loose just a bit, Frost says, the possessions might eventually follow.
With the wedge Rose pried a floor-board out of its place, and made an opening large enough to let himself through.
Then they brought out a great chisel and pried off the planking, fearful of the noise it made.
The lids of the boxes were pried off with bayonets, and the Sergeants ran along the companies distributing the packages.
With a chisel we pried at the sides of a large block of masonry, perhaps eight bricks in size.
The mouth must not be held open as if the jaws were pried apart.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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