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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
  • This latest exchange on social media comes after a rare in-person spat when Van Orden interrupted a Spectrum TV reporter interviewing Pocan and Republican U.S. Rep. Tony Wied outside of the U.S. Capitol.
    Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Dylan Sherman is a business reporter for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • This is in contrast to the National Reconnaissance Office, which owns the US government's fleet of spy satellites.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2025
  • But when a series of asteroids hits every major city in the world, including D.C., Will is forced to use his super-secret spy tech to both get his son and daughter to safety and figure out what a league of attacking alien tripods want with the human race — all in the same keystrokes.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The former chief White House correspondent for CNN welcomed the AI avatar, created by Oliver's parents Manuel and Patricia, on Monday's segment of his independent YouTube series to discuss gun control and other miscellaneous topics on what would have been his 25th birthday.
    EW.com, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Eleanor previously worked as a business correspondent and news editor in regional news in the U.K.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Producer Berman got a call from Washington’s longtime WME agent, Andrew Finkelstein.
    Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Florida Keys deputies arrested a Miami man on DUI and child neglect charges Wednesday who identified himself as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, according to the sheriff’s office.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Local law enforcement officers have gone so far as to fire munitions that have left both protesters and journalists injured.
    William Hartung, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Butterfly follows David, a former special operative, who finds out that his estranged daughter, Rebecca, is working for the same dark spy agency, Caddis, that he was forced to flee.
    Caroline Blair, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Of the approximately 200 media operatives killed in Gaza in 22 months of war, around 50 have been deliberately targeted, while many others were killed in strikes impacting civilians in the strip, rather than while reporting, Thibaut Bruttin, RSF's director general, told Newsweek.
    Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
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“Intelligencer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intelligencer. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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