How to Use meddle in a Sentence

meddle

verb
Definition of meddlenext
Synonyms for meddlenext
  • But hackers wouldn’t have to shut down freezers to meddle with the vaccine cold chain.
    — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2020
  • The Maddocks' efforts to meddle in the election didn't end in Michigan.
    — Dave Boucher, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2022
  • And as with any other states’ rights, Congress should not meddle at all.
    — Gillian Brassil, Sacramento Bee, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Philippine authorities say the killings were in self-defense and that the ICC has no right to meddle.
    — Reuters, CNN, 20 Nov. 2021
  • Why meddle in politics this way and alienate half of the country?
    — Jerry Bowyer, National Review, 5 May 2021
  • Now that Musk is taking Twitter private, the board won’t be able to meddle with his vision.
    — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 25 Apr. 2022
  • A lot of our marriages are breaking up because the mother- and father-in-law meddle in their business.
    — The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2023
  • Though omnipresent in the footage, Ono never appears to meddle in the band’s affairs or opine on any of their decisions.
    — NBC News, 22 Dec. 2021
  • But the department was not aware of any safety threats or efforts to meddle with voters’ rights.
    — Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2020
  • There’s a perception that Auburn boosters meddle with the program.
    — al, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The father of a family of four quarreling siblings tries to meddle in their lives.
    — Shalini Dore, Variety, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Sinatra used his influence to meddle with the film's casting.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Factions in Nigeria may be arguing over where that might be, Mr. Ehikhamenor added, but the West should not try to meddle in those affairs.
    — Alex Marshall, New York Times, 4 June 2023
  • What's more, concerns are growing about bad actors using AI to meddle in the election.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 3 May 2023
  • Not wanting to meddle, Emily continues to keep the intel from Gabriel.
    — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The former White House chief of staff was involved in numerous efforts to meddle with the 2020 election results.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The reason for the regulatory line in the first place was that the FDA did not want to meddle with doctors’ decision making.
    — Casey Ross, STAT, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The nation's new army chief claims the military won't meddle in the upcoming elections, but experts have their doubts.
    — Devika Rao, The Week, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Freedom of information in the West has allowed the Kremlin to meddle in elections.
    — David Kamenetzky and leopoldo López, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Duterte and his police chiefs say killings were in self-defense, while his government insists the ICC has no right to meddle in the country's affairs.
    — Reuters, CNN, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Biden also called on China to avoid meddling in Taiwan’s elections next year.
    — Chris Megerian, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Long gone are the days where brands who didn't meddle in politics, global issues, social issues and so on were the winning ones.
    — Renata Milicevic, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Few teams meddle with such mixes, even with those rosters aging and showing signs of fatigue.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Still, Jardin approaches this story rather as the smirking, meddling Forbes seemingly enters the party: as an agent of chaos, out to mix and mess things up for the sheer hell of it.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 21 Jan. 2024
  • But of course, people with a predisposition to meddle will always do so, given the chance.
    — John C. Goodman, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • But many feel that hypnotists shouldn’t meddle with people’s psyches at all.
    — Emily Latimer, Longreads, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The British meddled in Indigenous kingdoms and ruled through compliant chiefs.
    — Liam Taylor, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Melisandre will meddle in some Dangerous Liaisons in the near future.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 16 June 2021
  • Conway, during the Tuesday conference call, tried to allay fears that the cofounders would meddle.
    — Byluisa Beltran, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Yet again, the pesky practicalities of the real world meddle with our idealized fun.
    — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2023

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