prier

noun

variants also pryer
Definition of priernext
as in spy

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prier
  1. spy
  2. peeper
  3. snoop
  4. gaper
  5. interloper
Noun
  • The 10 best books of December include a spy novel, essays by physicist Alan Lightman, and a group biography of four women scientists in Nazi Germany.
    Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Essay Spook Stories: All Writers are Spies Jason McBride Ian McEwan’s Sweet Tooth takes the spy novel to metafictional new heights.
    Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
Definition of spy
Noun
  • Related Video Tyla Gets Ready for the Prelude to the 2024 Olympics Aside from limiting screen time, there are ways to increase eye health and protect our peepers from the damage induced by modern life.
    Maria Berentzen, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2024
  • At Loewe, makeup artist Pat McGrath crafted a range of gold and silver accents swept atop a number of models’ peepers.
    Jennifer Weil, WWD, 8 Oct. 2024
Definition of peeper
Noun
  • And a feature called Track Cleaner wipes away tracks and traces of your computer and internet use, to foil snoops.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Scores of security guards keep the homeless, the snoops and the patent-stealers at bay, while the dealmakers pack into the cramped Westin St. Francis hotel and its surrounds to meet with cash-hungry executives from biotech and other health care companies.
    Molly Castle Work and Arthur Allen, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2024
Definition of snoop
Noun
  • This pairing from Wildhorn worked in perfect harmony to keep gaper-gap at bay and airflow going directly from cutouts at the top of the helmet vents into the goggles.
    Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Another man asked if putting up higher barriers in the median might help with the dreaded gaper’s blocks that happen every time there’s an accident.
    Michelle L. Quinn, chicagotribune.com, 20 Oct. 2021
Definition of gaper
Noun
  • But that doesn’t mean the conference title chase can’t have its own intrigue, and the Utes are well-positioned as an interloper to shake up the Big 12 hierarchy.
    Sabreena Merchant, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
  • The whole tone of the process tends to treat any developer as an evil interloper who is trying to do something bad and must be controlled and pushed to do something good in order to proceed.
    Joshua Stein, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
Definition of interloper
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