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
The informer has a criminal record, mostly for theft, the Bee reported.
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Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2025
The law also would have allowed foreign nationals, including the millions of Afghans living in Iran, to work as informers reporting women not wearing the hijab.
—Amir Vahdat and Nasser Karimi, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
Both groups are infiltrated by police informers.
—Adam Hochschild, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2018
The Ukrainian soldiers began to see Russian civilians as a hindrance — or worse, as potential informers who could give away their positions.
—Ekaterina Bodyagina Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
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Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2025
The law also would have allowed foreign nationals, including the millions of Afghans living in Iran, to work as informers reporting women not wearing the hijab.
—Amir Vahdat and Nasser Karimi, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
Both groups are infiltrated by police informers.
—Adam Hochschild, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2018
The Ukrainian soldiers began to see Russian civilians as a hindrance — or worse, as potential informers who could give away their positions.
—Ekaterina Bodyagina Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for informer
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He had been suspended for flouting weight regulations, stripped of his informants and demoted to monitoring wiretaps.—
Christopher Goffard,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2025
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His lawyers and family deny any gang connections and say the allegations are largely based on information from a 2019 informant.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Apr. 2025
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“Informer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/informer. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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