snoop
verb (used without object)
to prowl or pry; go about in a sneaking, prying way.
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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She would have snooped; I didn't; that's the only generic difference.
From The Fighting Chance by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers