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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Recent Examples of informant
Federal prosecutors in Alabama secured an 11-count indictment accusing the organization of paying millions of dollars to some of those undercover informants and hiding the real purpose of the payments from its donors.
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Josh Meyer, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2026
As Ballmer sees it, Sanberg agreed to cooperate in exchange for the league submitting a favorable sentencing letter to Judge Wilson, and thus he shouldn’t be regarded as a credible informant.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 24 Apr. 2026
Feeding Our Future informant testified that Dar al Farooq’s food site was operated by Ibrham’s shell company, Mind Foundry, also known as ThinkTechAct.
—Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 24 Apr. 2026
The Justice Department is focusing on how the SPLC secretly paid informants working inside the Ku Klux Klan and other organizations the SPLC viewed as white supremacy and hate groups.
—Beth Gazley, The Conversation, 24 Apr. 2026
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Josh Meyer, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2026
As Ballmer sees it, Sanberg agreed to cooperate in exchange for the league submitting a favorable sentencing letter to Judge Wilson, and thus he shouldn’t be regarded as a credible informant.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 24 Apr. 2026
Feeding Our Future informant testified that Dar al Farooq’s food site was operated by Ibrham’s shell company, Mind Foundry, also known as ThinkTechAct.
—Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 24 Apr. 2026
The Justice Department is focusing on how the SPLC secretly paid informants working inside the Ku Klux Klan and other organizations the SPLC viewed as white supremacy and hate groups.
—Beth Gazley, The Conversation, 24 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for informant
informer
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And so every regime invests in having student informers.—
Anne Applebaum,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2026
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The whole family is deeply involved in the revolutionary movement: the oldest son disappears into Siberia, never to be seen or heard of again, while the youngest, eighteen, is jailed together with his father, and executed after his cell is exposed by an informer.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Informant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/informant. Accessed 5 May. 2026.
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