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as in gossiper
a person who habitually reveals personal or sensational facts about others
statehouse talebearers had long spread stories about the governor's extramarital affairs
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as in informant
a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing
the teacher told him not to be such a talebearer, as she was quite capable of detecting student misbehavior on her own
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Noun
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The defendants suggested one of the informants is either someone in current House Speaker Cameron Sexton's office – or is the speaker himself.—
Rosalind Bowling,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025 -
Encouragingly, this discernment may translate to digital informants like computers too.—
Evan Orticio,
Scientific American,
2 June 2025
Noun
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Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek's network of contributors A fan-favorite game turned the villa upside down last night as the islanders got one another's pulses pounding in the heart-rate challenge.—
Billie Melissa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 June 2025
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Refreshingly, there’s no talk of politics, religion, sports, finance, world news, or gossip.—
Thomas Cangelosi,
Hartford Courant,
27 June 2025
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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The music world is simply the latest canary in the coalmine.—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 July 2025
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Talent opting out of top jobs is a canary in the coal mine.—
Solange Charas,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
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“Talebearer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/talebearer. Accessed 16 Jul. 2025.
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