Example Sentences

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She teared up in an interview after Monday’s hearing, expressing disbelief that members of her own party had meddled improperly in the nomination matter.

From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2023

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the union’s claim he had meddled was “a total lie.”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 22, 2022

The mistakes the movie makes, and the ways it fails to fulfill its predecessor’s promise, make me want to say something critics rarely express: I wish that the studio had meddled a little bit more.

From Slate • Feb. 24, 2020

Its “war room” of employees working around the clock to fight false news stories collaborated with the F.B.I. last week to thwart a Kremlin-backed group of trolls that had meddled in the 2016 election.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2018

The dead Tenorio who had meddled with the fate of Narciso and Ultima would be carted away from our hills.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya