as in informant
a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing
a canary who was singing and giving up the names of some of the city's most notorious drug lords
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Recent Examples of canary
The Clock Is Ticking Shopify’s hiring policy is the canary in the corporate coal mine.
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Roger Dooley, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Canary Tokens Enable canary tokens for domain monitoring.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Image Image The canary in the coal mine CoreWeave just pulled off the first big initial public offering this year — and the results were far from heartening.
—Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Thousands of demonstrators clad in canary-yellow soccer jerseys thronged Copacabana Beach this month in support of a leader accused of conspiring to overthrow Brazil’s young democracy.
—Constance Malleret, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2025
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Roger Dooley, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Canary Tokens Enable canary tokens for domain monitoring.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Image Image The canary in the coal mine CoreWeave just pulled off the first big initial public offering this year — and the results were far from heartening.
—Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Thousands of demonstrators clad in canary-yellow soccer jerseys thronged Copacabana Beach this month in support of a leader accused of conspiring to overthrow Brazil’s young democracy.
—Constance Malleret, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for canary
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Instead, top administration officials have claimed Abrego Garcia is a member of the gang MS-13, citing allegations from a confidential informant.—
Melissa Quinn,
CBS News,
7 May 2025
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In May 2002, investigators announced plans to search a Sauk County property where an informant said her body was buried.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
6 May 2025
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Singh says that the Kashmir policy of India's Hindu nationalist government has alienated residents of Kashmir, and cost the Indian army its vital network of local informers.—
Omkar Khandekar,
NPR,
23 Apr. 2025
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The book’s cast of characters is immense, including spies and informers, dubious bankers, Mafiosos, terrorists, radical priests who support the poor, and conservatives who back right-wing dictators.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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Also, humans consume red dye No. 3 at levels far lower than those shown to cause cancer in two studies of rats, according to the FDA.—
Jasmine Mendez,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2025
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The sci-fi series has given us everything from mutant super-soldiers to all-out war between a farmer and an army of rats.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
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“Canary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/canary. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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