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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
  • Speaking to reporters for the first time since the opener, Prince on Friday took responsibility for the late substitutions that contributed to two damaging delay of game penalties late in the Week 2 loss against the Patriots.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
  • And in that present, Fugazi’s drummer, a scholar of caste, and a border reporter are no longer distant figures.
    Javier Garcia del Moral September 26, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Though Curry got the stats in the box score, the Buckeyes’ coverage, including a spy — usually Arvell Reese — deserves just as much credit for limiting Washington’s offense.
    Dane Brugler, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Lisbeth Salander is part Western hero, part expert hacker, part international spy and part Pippi Longstocking.
    Anders de la Motte, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But as our Mexico correspondent learns, traditions in Mexico are very hard to break.
    Greg Dixon, NPR, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Doyle Rice and Dinah Voyles Pulver are national correspondents for USA TODAY who have written about hurricanes, violent weather and climate change for decades.
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Federal immigration agents carried out a weeklong enforcement campaign across central Florida that led to the arrest of more than 400 migrants without legal status, officials say.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • His plan is to pose as a Fish & Wildlife agent, there to question Catalina’s husband about poaching … and then what?
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In practice, Musk bowed to authoritarian governments or banned critical journalists when their reporting annoyed him.
    Jacob Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Privately, political operatives from both sides concede that government shutdowns are bad for both parties.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Once the candidate is defined with a platform backfilled with extensive details, then allow the political operatives to take that platform out into social media with an out-of-the-box approach like some of the earlier suggestions.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
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“Intelligencer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intelligencer. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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