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Externally, these situations have either led to accusations that Norris was being favoured, or that McLaren were meddling too much, or both.

From BBC • Nov. 26, 2025

This effort also failed—it didn’t help when DeFazio announced that a New York hedge-fund manager and his daughter were meddling in Oregon politics.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 17, 2017

People were asking why they were meddling, and in fact, the next day, he was elected president and nothing happened.

From Slate • Jul. 15, 2016

Jesuits are often seen as rebels, and the Vatican shut down the order for several decades in the late 1700s because of the perception that its members were meddling in Colonial politics.

From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2013

It was almost as though she were meddling in another person’s brain.

From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson