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Recent Examples of double agent
Brielle plays Tina, an NSA analyst revealed in season 1 to be a double agent.
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Randall Colburn, EW.com, 12 June 2025
Cruise dangles from a helicopter and does a HALO jump from 25,000 feet in the air, Ethan's ex Julia comes back into the picture, Ilsa is more awesome than usual, and a mustached Cavill plays a double agent no one would want to stare down.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 20 May 2025
In the film, Pike’s Miranda Frost, a Harvard grad and Olympic fencer, disguises herself as a fellow member of MI6, only to later be revealed as a double agent.
—Jack Dunn, Variety, 13 May 2025
Among them was Yugoslavian playboy Dusko Popov, a real-life double agent.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 12 May 2025
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Randall Colburn, EW.com, 12 June 2025
Cruise dangles from a helicopter and does a HALO jump from 25,000 feet in the air, Ethan's ex Julia comes back into the picture, Ilsa is more awesome than usual, and a mustached Cavill plays a double agent no one would want to stare down.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 20 May 2025
In the film, Pike’s Miranda Frost, a Harvard grad and Olympic fencer, disguises herself as a fellow member of MI6, only to later be revealed as a double agent.
—Jack Dunn, Variety, 13 May 2025
Among them was Yugoslavian playboy Dusko Popov, a real-life double agent.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 12 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for double agent
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For the nursery Create a soothing and safe environment for your little one with essential gear like comfortable gliders, portable playpens and bedside sleepers.—
Nora Colomer,
FOXNews.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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But Tampa Bay is a serious sleeper in the NFC.—
Robert Marvi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 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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They are barred from using certain language during debates including git, guttersnipe, swine and stool pigeon.—
Max Colchester,
WSJ,
3 Jan. 2019
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Shadow Alliance Former National Security Agency counterspy John Schindler wrote on his Top Secret Umbra blog in January 2024 that Epstein appeared to have been part of a shadowy Israeli influence operation characterized as MEGA.—
Nick Mordowanec,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 July 2025
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During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Sep. 2019
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“Double agent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/double%20agent. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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