Prying in example sentence

Instead of Schumpeter’s “creative destruction,” bankers have engaged in destructive creation in order to gouge customers at every opportunity while shielding themselves behind a veil of complexity from the prying eyes of regulators (and even top management).

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It was an example of a culture clash that's happening all over the world between bewigged and bestockinged officials who think that they can rule over us without very much prying from the public, and then suddenly confronted with a public who is no longer content with that arrangement, and not only not content with it, now, more often, armed with official data itself.

He pasted tarps over the windows of his home to prevent prying eyes during the long Icelandic winter.

I have allowed my wife to do all of the emotional labor of prying open the lines of communication when I'd rather clam up and run away.

It's poking and prying with a purpose."

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