verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Comedy obtrudes too to obfuscate matters still further.
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Francis's owl-like countenance obtruded again.
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In practice, however, motives for intervention are rarely entirely pure, and an element of self-interest usually obtrudes.
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Memories of her grandmother's judgements obtruded themselves and she closed her mind against them.
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Popper insists that neither facts nor hypotheses simply obtrude themselves.
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The existing caravans, and particularly the new brick and stone built communal facilities already obtrude unacceptably into the landscape.
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Throughout the revising, to her surprise and her annoyance, Mallachy had obtruded.