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
Jurors have heard testimony from a confidential informant who set up Merchant with the undercover agents, as well as the agents themselves, and have seen video of Merchant and the confidential informant, Nadeem Ali, discussing the plot in a Queens hotel room.
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John Annese, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2026
Court documents allege an informant witnessed Clifton snorting cocaine near firearms during a drug deal at his residence.
—Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 3 Mar. 2026
These were the kinds of obstacles and mismatches Hite’s informants wrote about.
—Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
The sergeant said the lieutenant who would typically receive informant money had not been given any in November or December.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 27 Feb. 2026
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John Annese, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2026
Court documents allege an informant witnessed Clifton snorting cocaine near firearms during a drug deal at his residence.
—Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 3 Mar. 2026
These were the kinds of obstacles and mismatches Hite’s informants wrote about.
—Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
The sergeant said the lieutenant who would typically receive informant money had not been given any in November or December.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 27 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for informant
informer
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And so every regime invests in having student informers.—
Anne Applebaum,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2026
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The whole family is deeply involved in the revolutionary movement: the oldest son disappears into Siberia, never to be seen or heard of again, while the youngest, eighteen, is jailed together with his father, and executed after his cell is exposed by an informer.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
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