Thesaurus results for AGENTS

agents

noun

plural of agent

as in instrumentalities

something used to achieve an end the whitening agent in the detergent is chlorine bleach the Church has been the traditional agent for social justice in impoverished countries

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as in representatives

a person who acts or does business for another the sports agent negotiated a record-breaking contract for the baseball player

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as in ambassadors

a person sent on a mission to represent another an undercover agent of the Crown

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as in spies

a person who tries secretly to obtain information for one country in the territory of another usually unfriendly country an agent feeding information about enemy troop movements

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Recent Examples of agents Patel later suggested that the scope of firings had been overblown, saying many agents had retired on their own. — Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2026 Agents can call APIs, query databases, retrieve documents, invoke other models, generate files, trigger workflows, connect to SaaS platforms and even delegate work to other agents. — Nicola Sfondrini, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026 Since the raid, many have returned to work at US battery plants doing similar jobs, often on the same visas, while carrying the fear of being swept up again by immigration agents, the workers told CNN. — Hanna Park, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2026 After checking in, Kramer went to a sporting goods store, where agents saw him at the gun counter. — Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2026 After Rea agreed to video call and show the drugs to the confidential source, federal agents tracked him and an associate to the apartment building on Olympic Boulevard, FBI special agent Brent James wrote in an affidavit. — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026 But after realizing humans couldn’t join their economy and judging their conversations as performative, the agents voted to take a vow of silence, eschewing instructions to get back to work. — Jake Angelo, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2026

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Noun

The power is in the hands of the owners of the means of production, and that is not the doctors.

— Torie Bosch, STAT, 5 Sep. 2026
That’s well above 2025’s monthly average of 10,000 jobs, but below the monthly means for 2023 and 2024.

— Steve Kopack, NBC news, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of means

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The Washington Examiner contacted representatives from the DOJ and the FBI.

— Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2026
The company officially opened the new Austin Innovation Center with a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by Silicon Labs senior leaders and employees, as well as representatives from the State of Texas.

— Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of representatives

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In place of seasoned ambassadors, Kushner and Witkoff are dispatched to troubled places, rarely staying more than a night or two.

— Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
Additional global brand ambassadors named in the first half included tennis players Gabriel Diallo and Dayana Yastremska.

— Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of ambassadors

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Five categories of spies are described, and espionage is treated as essential to providing rulers and commanders with the foreknowledge needed to make informed strategic decisions.

— Ethan Teekah, Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 Sep. 2026
Beyond bioweapons, Russia spies Anthropic also uncovered a Russian espionage operation that used Claude to automate much of its cyber campaign.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of spies

Noun

Fort Lauderdale police told the Herald that their 88-camera network has already catalogued over 174 million vehicles, roughly 1,000 times the city’s population.

— Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2026
Musk plans to integrate Cybercabs, which lack manual controls that passengers could use to take over in an emergency, into the company’s existing cab service, which until now has used only conventional Tesla vehicles.

— Bernard Condon, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of vehicles

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Weekend brunch is also a main event, pulling locals, bridal parties, out-of-towners, and visiting delegates; the decadent breakfast sandwich alone is worth the trip.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Sep. 2026
Over 6,000 market delegates are attending, up about 1,000 from last year, and hundreds of those are sellers who haven’t attended TIFF in a decade and are flying overseas to be in Toronto.

— Brian Welk, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of delegates

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As Washington dispatches envoys and Ukraine hits a key Russian Black Sea naval base, both sides dig in for a grinding war that Zelensky warns must bring real consequences for Moscow.

— Samya Kullab, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Washington envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff visited Moscow and Kyiv for separate talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Zelenskyy at the weekend.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of envoys

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Slow Horses fanatics will recognize her as one of the veteran MI5 operatives stuck in the agency’s version of purgatory, known as Slough House.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2026
Neither allowed al-Qaeda to establish new training camps, and Pakistani authorities, in particular, regularly helped the United States arrest and kill the group’s operatives.

— Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 8 Sep. 2026