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  • Don't mean to butt-in but, I have a Royal shredder that literally gets abused day in and day out for the last 5 years, 16 pages at a time.

    Vlog alert. Ann Althouse 2008

  • What I'd like to have, if we could manage it, is a wire on her phone, one of those gadgets the cops have; or a butt-in, like the phone workers use, climb a pole and clip it right on to the wires; but we aren't equipped for any of that.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

  • What I'd like to have, if we could manage it, is a wire on her phone, one of those gadgets the cops have; or a butt-in, like the phone workers use, climb a pole and clip it right on to the wires; but we aren't equipped for any of that.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

  • On the train, coming down, he had talked to the boys about the bad reputation Americans had acquired for slouching all over the place and butting in on things, and had urged them to tread lightly, “But Lieutenant, ” the kid from Pleasantville had piped up, “isn’t this whole Expedition a butt-in?

    IV. Book Five: “Bidding the Eagles of the West Fly On 1922

  • And then he saw Forsyth at the piano -- why couldn't he leave her to do it herself, the butt-in?

    The Cow Puncher Robert J. C. Stead 1919

  • "I guess it is Knox's butt-in," Burton conceded, "but I get it later, Doctor; you promised."

    The Window at the White Cat 1910

  • Sure enough it's none of my butt-in what sort of thing you do.

    Judith of Blue Lake Ranch Jackson Gregory 1912

  • Say, if you was payin 'for five rooms and bath when you went on the road, like Mr. Gordon was, would you stand for any machinery-loft butt-in like that?

    Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

  • Bruder's disposition led to one of a handful of dilemmas that faces philanthropists: when people butt-in their causes.

    Forbes.com: News Tanya Benedicto 2011

  • Bruder's disposition led to one of a handful of dilemmas that faces philanthropists: when people butt-in their causes.

    Forbes.com: News 2011

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