as in informer
a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing
the FBI is working closely with informants to find out about the subversive group
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Merlino came out on top after a hitman allegedly hired by Stanfa, spurned by Stanfa's refusal to pay him, became an informant for the FBI, per CBS News.
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Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
One of the agency’s informants attended the wedding, as a guest.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Meanwhile, Grasso tries to use his informant status to get Lizzie out of harm’s way.
—Grace Byron, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2025
The sequel to 2021's Furioza brings us back into the dark and unsettling Polish underworld, as a young scumbag gets stuck under the thumb of the police and has to infiltrate a notorious prison as an informant.
—PC Magazine, 10 Oct. 2025
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Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
One of the agency’s informants attended the wedding, as a guest.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Meanwhile, Grasso tries to use his informant status to get Lizzie out of harm’s way.
—Grace Byron, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2025
The sequel to 2021's Furioza brings us back into the dark and unsettling Polish underworld, as a young scumbag gets stuck under the thumb of the police and has to infiltrate a notorious prison as an informant.
—PC Magazine, 10 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for informant
informer
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Frizer and Skeres were fraudsters, and the sinister Poley was an informer, crucial to the exposure of the Babington Plot.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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Option 2: If one prisoner informs while the other stays silent, the informer will go free while the silent one receives the harshest sentence.—
Michael Ashley,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2025
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“Informant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/informant. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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