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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Late last month, the Justice Department revealed that the cartel hired hacker who was able to infiltrate phone data and Mexico City's surveillance cameras to help track and kill FBI informants.
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CBS News, 16 July 2025
Then, in 1984, an informant revealed that a contract had been taken out on the life of a blond woman.
—Longreads, 8 July 2025
The prosecution of Davis was largely pinned on Hart’s confession and the testimony of others present when Slone was killed, as well as a jailhouse informant who told police Davis confessed while at the Butler County Jail.
—Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
One man, who court records say was here illegally, set up a methamphetamine sale with an informant working with the Drug Enforcement Agency.
—Richard Ruelas, AZCentral.com, 30 June 2025
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CBS News, 16 July 2025
Then, in 1984, an informant revealed that a contract had been taken out on the life of a blond woman.
—Longreads, 8 July 2025
The prosecution of Davis was largely pinned on Hart’s confession and the testimony of others present when Slone was killed, as well as a jailhouse informant who told police Davis confessed while at the Butler County Jail.
—Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
One man, who court records say was here illegally, set up a methamphetamine sale with an informant working with the Drug Enforcement Agency.
—Richard Ruelas, AZCentral.com, 30 June 2025
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informer
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Option 2: If one prisoner informs while the other stays silent, the informer will go free while the silent one receives the harshest sentence.—
Michael Ashley,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2025
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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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“Informant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/informant. Accessed 24 Aug. 2025.
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