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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Recent Examples of informant
But the cases in which informants provided testimony didn’t always hold up, The Enquirer found.
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Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Back in 2018, the FBI learned of a hack that may have cost some informants their lives.
—Thomas Brewster, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
Additionally, deputies maintained a system to conceal, manage and reward those informants.
—Tony Saavedra, Oc Register, 29 July 2025
Marino ended up serving as a confidential informant, wearing multiple wires that captured sound and video.
—Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 22 July 2025
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Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Back in 2018, the FBI learned of a hack that may have cost some informants their lives.
—Thomas Brewster, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
Additionally, deputies maintained a system to conceal, manage and reward those informants.
—Tony Saavedra, Oc Register, 29 July 2025
Marino ended up serving as a confidential informant, wearing multiple wires that captured sound and video.
—Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 22 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for informant
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 29 Aug. 2025.
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