snooping
Example Sentences
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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
You are likely to connect to public Wi-Fi in airports, hotels and cafes, and encrypted connections are crucial for protecting personal data and preventing snooping.
From Salon • Nov. 30, 2025
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
So the prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures, originally meant to stop the constable banging on your door in 1787, now applies to the government snooping through the contents of your smartphone.
From Slate • May 8, 2024
But the Inspectors’ cars were forever snooping and spotlighting those dark streets, taking from poor men their one privacy, the night.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
