Definition of intelligencernext
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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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Noun
  • Despite undergoing surgery last week to address a broken pinky finger, New York center Mitchell Robinson will play in Game 1 tonight, the team told reporters.
    Andrew Greif, NBC news, 4 June 2026
  • Those three names will be linked for a long time in NFL circles based on what happened going back as far as September of 2025, and then definitely through this offseason that was about, well, the relationship between the coach and the reporter.
    Armando Salguero, FOXNews.com, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • Epstein had done some of his own detective work by purchasing a spy camera to catch the culprit, who turned out to be a former butler.
    Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 4 June 2026
  • The Five Eyes intelligence alliance warned that China was using LinkedIn and other social media platforms to recruit spies.
    Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 4 June 2026
Noun
  • Vega joined the newsmagazine in 2023, becoming the program’s first Latina correspondent.
    Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
  • In the early 1980s, Morrison was a co-host and political correspondent for the CBC Network’s The Journal, a nightly news and current affairs program.
    Dateline NBC, NBC news, 29 May 2026
Noun
  • The real payoff is in watching Jackie, along with the actress playing her, slowly molt out of brand protection mode, and the always likable Goldstein is content to accept his role as a mere agent of that change.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 4 June 2026
  • Epstein told them to wait, walked over to the agents himself, and returned ten minutes later.
    James Hill, ABC News, 4 June 2026
Noun
  • Award-winning journalist Melanie Haiken covers travel, food, science, health, and the environment from her home in the San Francisco Bay Area.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 June 2026
  • The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.
    STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 June 2026
Noun
  • Known for projects like Army of the Dead and a number for DC, including Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Snyder is currently in post on The Last Photograph, a drama following an ex-DEA operative and war photographer in search of a pair of missing children in South America.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 1 June 2026
  • To complete the task, Rachel needs to bring in a pair of expert extractors, Sid (Cavill) and Bronco (Gyllenhaal), and their team of covert operatives because Manny lives on an island guarded by a private army whose members are locked and loaded with high-tech weaponry.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
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“Intelligencer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intelligencer. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.

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