Thesaurus results for INFORMER

informer

noun

in-ˈfȯr-mər

as in informant

a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing the informer who told the police about that conspiracy has angered a lot of dangerous people

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Recent Examples of informer 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 Reporting from human intelligence assets – spies or unwitting informers with firsthand or secondhand knowledge – may provide information on internal Iranian assessments. —

Joshua Rovner, The Conversation, 2 July 2025 The court can instruct the jury to view with caution the testimony of, say, an informer or a drug addict. —

Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 10 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for informer

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informant

Noun

The Weathermen and Panthers held meetings together and exchanged intel about government surveillance and police informants.

— Zayd Ayers Dohrn, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2026
The Miami Herald has previously reported that Pretel, who ran a company known as Counter Terrorist Unit Federal Academy and helped recruit the Colombian commandos, was an FBI informant.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2026