: a spy pretending to serve one government while actually serving another
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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