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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
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Jonathan Dienst Jonathan Dienst is chief justice contributor for NBC News and chief investigative reporter for WNBC-TV in New York.—
Tom Winter,
NBC news,
7 May 2026 -
Paris Barraza is a reporter covering Los Angeles and Southern California for the USA TODAY Network.—
Paris Barraza,
USA Today,
7 May 2026
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Hong Kong — China’s top spy agency has come out of the shadows to warn that its young people are being duped by foreign forces into shirking hard work and prioritizing their individual emotions at the expense of national development.—
Sylvie Zhuang,
CNN Money,
7 May 2026
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Lu’s lawyer, John Carman portrayed the case as a mundane bureaucratic blip, not an international spy thriller.—
Michael R. Sisak,
Fortune,
6 May 2026
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Prosecutors have accused Allen, 31, of sprinting through a security checkpoint one floor above the correspondents' dinner while armed with a handgun, a shotgun and several knives.—
Sarah N. Lynch,
CBS News,
8 May 2026
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Dinah Voyles Pulver, a national correspondent for USA TODAY, writes about violent weather, climate change and other news.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
8 May 2026
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The 32-year-old Minter was coming off August 2024 hip labrum and microfracture surgery when the Mets signed him to a free-agent contract ahead of the 2025 season.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
7 May 2026
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Also, why did the other sub-agents not refuse?—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
7 May 2026
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Speculation began swirling after flirty messages between Harry and Mail on Sunday journalist Charlotte Griffiths were revealed during his unlawful information gathering court case against the outlet’s publisher, Associated Newspapers Limited.—
StyleCaster Editors,
StyleCaster,
3 May 2026
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The fragile three-week ceasefire appears to be holding, though Trump on Saturday told journalists that further strikes remained a possibility.—
Adam Schreck,
Fortune,
3 May 2026
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Federal documents show that longtime political operative and Trump ally Roger Stone has since joined DCI's effort, at $50,000 per month.—
Lorcan Lovett,
NPR,
3 May 2026
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The problem is not that every national reporter is a Democratic operative.—
Larry Clifton,
The Orlando Sentinel,
3 May 2026
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“Intelligencer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intelligencer. Accessed 9 May. 2026.
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