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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Another photo from Espinoza Martinez’s phone of a different gun, which prosecutors allege the defendant was offering for sale to the informant, also could come in, the judge ruled.
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Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
The informant’s account was consistent with the special agent’s information that Fluker was a campus supervisor at Winnetonka High School in Kansas City’s Northland.
—Kansas City Star, 7 Jan. 2026
Jacobsen, who was appointed chief in 2022, is suspected of stealing money from a department fund that was created to pay confidential informants.
—Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2026
The New York Times first reported on the informant inside the regime.
—Phil Helsel, NBC news, 4 Jan. 2026
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Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
The informant’s account was consistent with the special agent’s information that Fluker was a campus supervisor at Winnetonka High School in Kansas City’s Northland.
—Kansas City Star, 7 Jan. 2026
Jacobsen, who was appointed chief in 2022, is suspected of stealing money from a department fund that was created to pay confidential informants.
—Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2026
The New York Times first reported on the informant inside the regime.
—Phil Helsel, NBC news, 4 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for informant
informer
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Frizer and Skeres were fraudsters, and the sinister Poley was an informer, crucial to the exposure of the Babington Plot.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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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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“Informant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/informant. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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