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Her neighbors saw her as a meddlesome nuisance.
meddlesome neighbors kept asking the couple when they were going to have children
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Joyce Antler, also a historian of American Judaism, has written specifically about stereotypes of Jewish mothers as meddlesome, interfering, overbearing and over-involved.
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Samira Mehta, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2024
Moon has become particularly close with Bean, who plays her mother, and who has put a lot of thought into how best to be helpful without being meddlesome.
—Michael Paulson, New York Times, 8 May 2024
Immediately, sparks fly but the road to love will be anything but easy when their meddlesome friends and family get involved.
—Dana Feldman, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
Still, any route out of the crisis is unclear, with Bangladesh’s once meddlesome military today firmly in Hasina’s corner.
—Charlie Campbell, TIME, 25 July 2024
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Samira Mehta, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2024
Moon has become particularly close with Bean, who plays her mother, and who has put a lot of thought into how best to be helpful without being meddlesome.
—Michael Paulson, New York Times, 8 May 2024
Immediately, sparks fly but the road to love will be anything but easy when their meddlesome friends and family get involved.
—Dana Feldman, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
Still, any route out of the crisis is unclear, with Bangladesh’s once meddlesome military today firmly in Hasina’s corner.
—Charlie Campbell, TIME, 25 July 2024
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“Meddlesome.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meddlesome. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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