as in informant
a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing
an accountant who had turned deep throat, he was the first to leak the information that the company had been cooking its books for years
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Noun
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Former Gambino mobster and government informant John Alite poses on a Queens street in 2013.—
Cara Tabachnick,
CBS News,
20 June 2026 -
Rogness is charged with one count of being an accessory after the fact and one count of tampering with a witness, victim or informant.—
Angela George,
USA Today,
19 June 2026
Noun
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One of State Security’s main goals, as well as a central source of its strength, is turning civilians into informers.—
Abraham Jiménez Enoa,
The Dial,
19 May 2026
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And so every regime invests in having student informers.—
Anne Applebaum,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2026
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Matt Schmidt, founder of Schmidt Automotive Research, said BMW is a canary in a coal mine for the industry.—
Neil Winton,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2026
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Princess Kate is back at Royal Ascot and looking radiant in a canary-yellow look.—
Jennifer Hassan,
USA Today,
17 June 2026
Noun
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Once an unconscious stool pigeon, always an unconscious stool pigeon.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
12 Nov. 2025
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Russo turned stool pigeon within a month of his November 2017 arrest for selling a kilo of cocaine to an undercover agent.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Deep throat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deep%20throat. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.
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