Thesaurus results for INFORMER

informer

noun

in-ˈfȯr-mər

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 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 The Nazis set up secret squads in the camps to conduct beatings and killings of prisoners thought to be too friendly with U.S. officials or were accused of being informers. —

Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 10 July 2025 Reporting from human intelligence assets – spies or unwitting informers with firsthand or secondhand knowledge – may provide information on internal Iranian assessments. —

Joshua Rovner, The Conversation, 2 July 2025 The court can instruct the jury to view with caution the testimony of, say, an informer or a drug addict. —

Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 10 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for informer

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informant

Noun

Takeshi Ebisawa poses with a rocket launcher during a meeting with an informant and two undercover Danish police officers at a warehouse in Copenhagen, Denmark February 3, 2021, in a photograph from a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) criminal complaint.

— CBS News, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026
Jailhouse informant pointed to Puckett The events that led to his death began the evening of March 12, 1998 — not March 13, as originally presented at trial.

— Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 4 Mar. 2026