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
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Additionally, deputies maintained a system to conceal, manage and reward those informants.—
Tony Saavedra,
Oc Register,
29 July 2025 -
Marino ended up serving as a confidential informant, wearing multiple wires that captured sound and video.—
Lynsey Eidell,
People.com,
22 July 2025
Noun
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Topics tumble over one another in a freewheeling stream of views and gossip.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Aug. 2025
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The California Post will launch in early 2026, and mock cover images show that the New York paper’s gossip section Page Six will make the move westward as well.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Over the past eight decades, the CCP has constructed a vast network of millions of informers and spies whose often unpaid work has been critical to the regime’s survival.—
Minxin Pei,
Foreign Affairs,
6 Feb. 2024
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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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“Circulator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/circulator. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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