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Recent Examples of informant Moreland's plan failed as Pedigo became a confidential informant for the FBI, adding to the federal government's case for obstruction of justice and witness tampering. Hadley Hitson, The Tennessean, 17 July 2025 Nationwide, there have been 256 exonerations tied to the use of jailhouse informants, according to the National Registry of Exonerations. Kristine Phillips, IndyStar, 2 July 2025 Additionally, in the weeks following the rapper’s deadly shooting, a wave of gang violence ensued in L.A. that informants told police was retaliation for Shakur’s murder, the Los Angeles Times reported. Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 1 July 2025 Kennedy met with the CIA after a 1955 tour of the Soviet Union, relaying his observations to the spy agency as a voluntary informant, the documents show. Arkansas Online, 13 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for informant
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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
  • 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 8 Aug. 2025.

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