double agent

noun

Synonyms of double agentnext
: a spy pretending to serve one government while actually serving another

Examples of double agent in a Sentence

He was secretly working as a double agent for the Americans during the war.
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Lydia, naturally, has her own reasons for pairing Agnes and Daisy together, evolving from a ruthless zealot and disciplinarian in Handmaid’s Tale into a kind of double agent looking to overthrow Gilead from within the hallowed halls of power in Testaments, as the finale set her up to do. Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 5 Mar. 2026 And where Clara is going to find a double agent. John Kenney, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026 He was sanctioned by the European Union in 2019 in connection with the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, England with the nerve agent Novichok. Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 9 Feb. 2026 As double agent Vesper Lynd, Eva Green is such a powerful figure that her memory haunts Bond for the entirety of Craig’s tenure. Sezin Devi Koehler, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for double agent

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First Known Use

1935, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of double agent was in 1935

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“Double agent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/double%20agent. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.

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