as in informant
a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing
the informer who told the police about that conspiracy has angered a lot of dangerous people
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Recent Examples of informer
The arrests were part of wide-ranging Establishment attacks on the new generation of pop stars in Britain at the time, done through connivance with informers and a hostile conservative media.
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Bill Wyman, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
The informer has a criminal record, mostly for theft, the Bee reported.
—Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2025
The law also would have allowed foreign nationals, including the millions of Afghans living in Iran, to work as informers reporting women not wearing the hijab.
—Amir Vahdat and Nasser Karimi, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
Both groups are infiltrated by police informers.
—Adam Hochschild, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2018
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Bill Wyman, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
The informer has a criminal record, mostly for theft, the Bee reported.
—Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2025
The law also would have allowed foreign nationals, including the millions of Afghans living in Iran, to work as informers reporting women not wearing the hijab.
—Amir Vahdat and Nasser Karimi, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
Both groups are infiltrated by police informers.
—Adam Hochschild, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for informer
informant
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But, during the trials, you were named as someone who interrogated Aquash for being an informant.—
Nick Estes,
New Yorker,
26 June 2025
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Privacy advocates have expressed concern that the program, and Ring’s accompanying Neighbors app, have heightened the risk of racial profiling and turned residents into informants, with few guardrails around how law enforcement can use the material.—
Annie Palmer,
CNBC,
25 June 2025
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“Informer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/informer. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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