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trespassing

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verb

present participle of trespass
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trespassing
Adjective
  • Lyle and Erik Menendez’s bold, brazen actions both before and after their life sentences kept the media fixated.
    Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Garcia lamented the fact that the fast-food establishment’s name has become attached to the notorious alley that runs behind restaurant property and draws a shockingly brazen level of drug activity day and night.
    Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • In short, Moscow sees Montenegro as both strategically valuable and an impudent upstart that has thumbed its nose at the Russian bear while genuflecting before NATO and Washington.
    Edward P. Joseph, Foreign Affairs, 22 Dec. 2016
  • There’s some amusing cat-and-mouse negotiation, including a hilariously impudent gesture from Samuel during an office drinks evening.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Adjective
  • Her subversive and dominating personality, and sometimes insolent rhetoric in her active X presence set her apart from the likes of other female AI chatbots, such as Siri whose aim is to assist and serve.
    Fatemeh Fannizadeh, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Bullock’s John Hotham is forced to manage an uprising of rogue military personal and armed insurgents on a semi-fictional January 6, 2025 that makes the real-life January 6, 2021 seem like insolent child’s play.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 14 June 2024
Adjective
  • Each side is outfitted with a different adventure—shape sorting, gear spinners, activity keys, sliders, and beads—for inquisitive young minds.
    Pamela Brill, Parents, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Plenty of inquisitive fans of the reality series have pointed out on Garrett Josemans' Instagram page in recent weeks that the 33-year-old Netflix reality star indeed has a new hairstyle — having swapped his short spiky hair from the show for a longer, messier look during a recent modeling gig.
    Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 10 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Despite lines that are initially chatty and chirpy, Corden shows how bumptious his character really is.
    David Benedict, Variety, 26 June 2024
  • Although not always directly correlated with being bumptious and arrogant, performing at a higher standard than others, and having something to show for it, will always garner attention.
    Clare French, Hartford Courant, 16 Mar. 2024
Adjective
  • Aim for a balance that keeps your brand top of mind without being intrusive.
    Kartik Jobanputra, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Feeling unsettled by Dalloway’s increasingly intrusive presence, Clarissa is warned by Mathias, a whistleblower artist who tells her about the true motives behind the residency and the tech company funding it.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 29 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • In the late Eighties, Ernst Jorgensen, then an executive at a BMG affiliate in Denmark, raised an impertinent question in an international meeting.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2024
  • There this brilliant but bewildered scientist gets cornered by a plutocrat with impertinent questions.
    Alan Scherstuhl, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Then, its texture and scent likely attracted a curious feline.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2024
  • October 2024 Page of Swords: With the new moon solar eclipse in Libra on October 2 lighting up your third house of communication, the Page of Swords encourages you to stay curious and open-minded this month.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2024

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“Trespassing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trespassing. Accessed 9 Nov. 2024.

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