secret agent

noun

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: a person who tries to get secret information about another country, government, etc.

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The show set up Steven Hill as secret agent Briggs, but Hill only lasted a single season of the show’s seven-year run. Ed Olmstead, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026 At once a world-class, supervillain-busting secret agent and a prototypically insecure adolescent, Kim Possible (Christy Carlson Romano) outwardly resembled a great number of female cartoon characters from the early aughts. Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2026 So and his lead co-stars Choi Dae-hoon and Yoon Kyung-ho formed the perfect trio of lethal secret agents masquerading as bumbling middle-aged dads, displaying remarkable chemistry. Regina Kim, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026 My father ran a university campus there and was considered by some to be a running dog of the American corporate elite and possibly a secret agent sent to destroy them. Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 17 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for secret agent

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“Secret agent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/secret%20agent. Accessed 21 Sep. 2026.

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