infiltrator

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Recent Examples of infiltrator He is brought into the fold by Helen (Elizabeth McGovern), leader of the Talamasca’s New York Motherhouse, to help snuff out an infiltrator in the organization. Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for infiltrator
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • But Tampa Bay is a serious sleeper in the NFC.
    Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • They are barred from using certain language during debates including git, guttersnipe, swine and stool pigeon.
    Max Colchester, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2019
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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“Infiltrator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infiltrator. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.

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