snoop
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While co-COO at the bank, Bisignano directed staff to snoop on rival executives, people familiar with the matter told the Journal.
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, a snitch, a stool pigeon, an informer.
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
“Why don’t you ask this Felix Lester to snoop around for you?”
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
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
Similarly, virtual private networks hide your Internet activity from snoops, but they also can log it.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2022
Julia often snoops in my room, but she's never discovered this hiding place.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
For eight years they snooped on 182 nests, checking them every few days during the breeding season.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 1, 2023
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
He spent a day and a half in the witness box on Tuesday and Wednesday answering questions about his claim that British tabloids had unlawfully snooped on his life throughout his childhood and young adulthood.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 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
“You’re telling me you’ve never snooped around his office? Looked through his documents?”
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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
Sometimes animal activists come snooping around, Mark said: “We do things differently, and some people don’t understand.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2024
Looking at a photo doesn’t feel quite as much like I’ve been snooping into her personal business.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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