circulator

as in gossiper
a person who habitually reveals personal or sensational facts about others an ugly rumor about one of our staffers was circulating, and, as usual, the chief circulator was the in-house busybody

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Noun
  • He had been suspended for flouting weight regulations, stripped of his informants and demoted to monitoring wiretaps.
    Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2025
  • His lawyers and family deny any gang connections and say the allegations are largely based on information from a 2019 informant.
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek's network of contributors The Diablo series is one of the most prolific and influential video games series in history, with the first game in the series having almost single handedly pioneered the modern dungeon crawler RPG genre.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Get into the habit of putting empathy before gossip.
    Jenna Ryu, SELF, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The Ukrainian soldiers began to see Russian civilians as a hindrance — or worse, as potential informers who could give away their positions.
    Ekaterina Bodyagina Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The arrests were part of wide-ranging Establishment attacks on the new generation of pop stars in Britain at the time, done through connivance with informers and a hostile conservative media.
    Bill Wyman, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
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“Circulator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/circulator. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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