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Updike stuck up for himself when faced with the magazine’s intrusively correct fiddling: In 1958 he sent one editor, William Maxwell, an unwavering paragraph against a single word.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

Tourism workers say this can lead to hard feelings, especially when visitors try to photograph damage or ask intrusively about lost homes and loved ones.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2024

He added the inspectorate, going forward, would "now examine London Fire Brigade's improvement plans more frequently and more intrusively, and work closely with the brigade to monitor its progress".

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2022

Its taut tale of the ravaging effects of jealousy has not been intrusively styled, as so many productions of Shakespeare are today, in a mode of searing contemporary relevance.

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2018

Altogether there are some ten thousand of these intrusively visible volcanoes on Earth, all but a few hundred of them extinct.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson