as in informant
a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing
the prison inmate swore that he'd get revenge if he ever found out who the snitcher was
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New investigators learned that his role as a police drug informant may have shielded him from further scrutiny.—
Emily Blackwood,
People.com,
23 Aug. 2025 -
Meanwhile, the Proud Boys fractured in 2021, after Reuters uncovered court records indicating that Tarrio had served as an informant to local and federal law enforcement before the group was founded.—
Ali Breland,
The Atlantic,
5 Aug. 2025
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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
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Over the past eight decades, the CCP has constructed a vast network of millions of informers and spies whose often unpaid work has been critical to the regime’s survival.—
Minxin Pei,
Foreign Affairs,
6 Feb. 2024
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The insurance crisis is the canary in the coal mine for the climate crisis.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Aug. 2025
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Residents can own pet canaries, finches, parakeets, love birds, parrots, softbill birds, fishes for aquaria and nonpoisonous reptiles, though.—
Bella Waters,
Kansas City Star,
25 July 2025
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Russo turned stool pigeon within a month of his November 2017 arrest for selling a kilo of cocaine to an undercover agent.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
26 Feb. 2025
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They are barred from using certain language during debates including git, guttersnipe, swine and stool pigeon.—
Max Colchester,
WSJ,
3 Jan. 2019
Noun
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After more than two hours of flying rats, the toss was still going strong.—
Nathaniel Rich,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
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This presented a conundrum for the rats: go for the reward or avoid the punishment.—
Nicole Lipkin,
Forbes.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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Why would Gina lie about this, and why would the reporter lie about this?—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
22 Aug. 2025
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Reach the reporter at dina.kaur@arizonarepublic.com.—
Dina Kaur,
AZCentral.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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“Snitcher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snitcher. Accessed 31 Aug. 2025.
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