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 Congress’s February efforts to resolve the shutdown were complicated by the lawless ICE campaign in Minneapolis, where federal agents killed two American citizens during a brutal crackdown on protests. —

Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2026 The Keep Air Travel Safe Act, filed in October, extended the protection to Transportation Security Administration agents. —

ABC News, 28 Mar. 2026 Widespread protests and candlelight vigils followed January’s fatal shootings by ICE agents in Minneapolis of Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, and Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse. —

Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2026 The massive expansion of enforcement operations drew local resistance from activists, leading to clashes with federal agents and the deaths of residents Good and Pretti during confrontations with ICE and Border Patrol. —

Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 28 Mar. 2026 Nothing erodes confidence faster than fumbling for lockboxes, waiting on unresponsive listing agents, or showing a space that clearly doesn’t fit. —

Allen Buchanan, Oc Register, 28 Mar. 2026 The federal government needs to get its act together, pay TSA officers, and stop asking ICE agents to do work far outside their scope. —

Andrew Adeolu, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2026 Springsteen also referenced the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, both killed by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis in January. —

Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2026 Democrats balked at funding the agency, while other departments are unaffected, demanding changes to immigration enforcement by federal agents. —

Arkansas Online, 22 Mar. 2026

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On deck to present was PMB Capital partner Taylor Baird and Edged Data Centers chief investment officer John Callahan, along with representatives from the city of Fort Worth.

— Emily Holshouser, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Mar. 2026
Team representatives wrote in the lobbying material that the Blazers’ future in Portland was at stake — and that a departure would threaten the city’s turnaround from pandemic-era headlines about downtown retail vacancies and crime.

— Conrad Wilson, ProPublica, 25 Mar. 2026