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nose into

  1. see nose in.



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“I Am Enough” is a terrifying science-fiction tale by Rachel and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley about the people and things who were in the Arctic before indigenous groups arrived, and a hapless white social worker who pokes her nose into places it definitely doesn’t belong.

At the ground level, thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of private citizens act as self-appointed KGB agents, poking their nose into other people’s business and publicly denouncing them to get them fired or otherwise harassed.

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But instead of navigating society balls and dowries, Pickett's modern Emma is poking her nose into her friends' online dating profiles, having returned home after failing her exams at Oxford University.

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The police disguise thing—in my copy, I remember almost bumping my nose into that detail on my first or second draft.

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Some Conservatives and Reform argue the only way of making a material difference is to leave the European Convention on Human Rights altogether, rather than see ministers stick their nose into the courts.

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