as in informer
a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing
the FBI is working closely with informants to find out about the subversive group
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The defendants suggested one of the informants is either someone in current House Speaker Cameron Sexton's office – or is the speaker himself.
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Rosalind Bowling, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Encouragingly, this discernment may translate to digital informants like computers too.
—Evan Orticio, Scientific American, 2 June 2025
The series is based on Patrick Radden Keefe’s 2018 book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, which told the story of the abduction and murder of Jean McConville, a mother of 10 who was wrongly accused by the IRA of being a British Army informant.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 30 May 2025
The nonprofit’s founder is Edward Clancy, a former political consultant who also served more than a decade ago as an informant for the FBI.
—Jeff McDonald, Mercury News, 23 May 2025
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Rosalind Bowling, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Encouragingly, this discernment may translate to digital informants like computers too.
—Evan Orticio, Scientific American, 2 June 2025
The series is based on Patrick Radden Keefe’s 2018 book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, which told the story of the abduction and murder of Jean McConville, a mother of 10 who was wrongly accused by the IRA of being a British Army informant.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 30 May 2025
The nonprofit’s founder is Edward Clancy, a former political consultant who also served more than a decade ago as an informant for the FBI.
—Jeff McDonald, Mercury News, 23 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for informant
informer
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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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“Informant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/informant. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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