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as in reporter
a person employed by a newspaper, magazine, or radio or television station to gather, write, or report news
the student journalist asked questions as probing as those of a seasoned intelligencer
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as in spy
a person who tries secretly to obtain information for one country in the territory of another usually unfriendly country
as the nation's top intelligencer, the director of the CIA should have been more skeptical of the information he was being fed
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intelligencer
Noun
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David’s view The voters most keen to talk with political reporters are, typically, extremely engaged in politics.—
David Weigel,
semafor.com,
26 Mar. 2026 -
Mike Danahey is a freelance reporter for The Courier-News.—
Mike Danahey,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Mar. 2026
Noun
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But the cameras in question are not exotic spy technology.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
26 Mar. 2026
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Ezekiel Richardson outs himself as a spy for the Continental Army to Claire.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
26 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Natalia Augias, the London correspondent for Italian network Tg1, said the same during an interview with Vanity Fair Italy last fall.—
Stefania Conrieri,
Vanity Fair,
27 Mar. 2026
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Kaila Yu is a writer and on-camera correspondent based in Los Angeles.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
27 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The pair are chaos agents who, in conferring the benefit of sudden wealth, lure the recipients into corruption.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2026
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Registered agents can handle paperwork, often shielding the identities of those behind the entities.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
27 Mar. 2026
Noun
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No human journalist was harmed in this experiment.—
CA Earthquake Bot,
Sacbee.com,
30 Mar. 2026
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It was reviewed and edited by our journalists.—
Michael Butler,
Miami Herald,
30 Mar. 2026
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On paper, Gosling’s turn as a CIA operative named Six who is entrusted with protecting a tween girl from an unhinged assassin should be, if not amazing, at least watchable.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
20 Mar. 2026
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Or for the suggestion that Chinese intelligence operatives were roaming near sensitive sites with impunity.—
Adam Ciralsky,
Vanity Fair,
19 Mar. 2026
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“Intelligencer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intelligencer. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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