BUTTS IN Synonyms: 33 Similar and Opposite Words

butts in

verb

present tense third-person singular of butt in

as in interferes

to interest oneself in what is not one's concern stop butting in on my personal life

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Recent Examples of butts in At best, this umpteenth entry in the Statham cannon feels like a throwback to a time when all that was needed to get butts in seats was plenty of butt-kicking on screen. — Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 24 Aug. 2026 Horror movies put butts in seats, and this summer doesn’t have many other straight-down-the-middle scares in store for audiences. — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026 According to the league, the drink will be available at Padres, Marlins and A's games (anything to put butts in seats at the last two parks) and select minor league stadiums, and will be served in a souvenir cup. — Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 26 June 2026 Instead, the atmosphere at the 2026 Programmers’ Jam was refreshingly practical, as a bunch of truly dedicated cinephiles mulled over the pressing matter of not just putting butts in seats — but making sure that each of their film communities has affordable, sustainable access to critical art. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 12 May 2026 More juice to score points and more juice to keep fans’ butts in those MetLife Stadium seats. — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2026 This weekend is a crowded one for the Colorado film festival scene, with the Boulder International Film Festival, Oscar-qualifying Aspen Shortsfest, ACT Human Rights Film Festival and Denver Silent Film festival all competing for butts in seats. — John Wenzel, Denver Post, 9 Apr. 2026 A lot of people lose their butts in a bookstore, but the successful bookstores are becoming more successful. — Casey Cep, New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2026 The blimp, Marty jackets, the orange ping-pong balls, the fake Zoom meeting with his PR team, Susan Boyle, the Sphere, a verse on an EsDeeKid remix — at the time of writing, Timothée Chalamet is still going (probably), working overtime to get butts in theaters and an Oscar in his hand. — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 31 Dec. 2025

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If a person interferes or one step fails, the system can adjust its plan and retry rather than requiring the entire task to be restarted.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2026
But as China’s 2018 detention of two Canadian citizens after Canada arrested a Huawei executive showed, the party readily interferes in the legal system when important interests are at stake.

— Mark Jia, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2026