intelligencers

plural of intelligencer
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as in spies
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
  • And then there are other analysts and reporters, such as Mark Clattenburg, Geoff Shreeves, Alex Aljoe and Katie Shanahan.
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 18 July 2026
  • In recent months, the department subpoenaed reporters from the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal in national-security cases.
    Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 18 July 2026
Noun
  • To Robby and Michael, suddenly seeing their parents in the news again as spies was painful.
    Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 10 July 2026
  • Reddick loads her genre-blurring tale with outlandish intrigue involving Soviet spies, a capitalist cult and a roving choir that doubles as a Greek chorus.
    Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
Noun
  • The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 16 July 2026
  • 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, 10 July 2026
Noun
  • A man of the people, a working-class hero, a diamond in the rough unearthed by political operatives riding the high of Mamdani’s rise—the narrative, in and of itself, was a winning strategy.
    Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 15 July 2026
  • Unbeknownst to him, the bottle contained the same nerve agent investigators believe Russian operatives had used three months earlier to poison a former spy in nearby Salisbury.
    Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
Noun
  • The newcomers will join Bill Whitaker, Leslie Stahl, Jon Wertheim and Norah O’Donnell, who are all returning as correspondents.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
  • But Red Star was also propaganda, which meant that its correspondents—including such towering literary figures as Andrei Platonov and Ilya Ehrenburg—were subject to stringent censorship, unable to denounce the Soviet war effort.
    Madeleine Wulfahrt, New Yorker, 8 July 2026
Noun
  • Two men who were with Salgado Araujo disputed the government’s account, saying the agents’ vehicles bumped into them and then swayed into the van, forcing them to stop.
    Julianna Bragg, CNN Money, 15 July 2026
  • The industry tends to shed agents, especially new ones — the median income for Realtors who have been working for less than two years is $8,100.
    Clio Chang, Curbed, 14 July 2026
Noun
  • The $14 billion in assets in the four funds isn’t close to covering the $51 billion in collective liabilities.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2026
  • And because local equity markets performed so strongly, Israeli investors shifted long‑term investments back into shekel‑denominated assets, strengthening the currency.
    Mia Osmonbekov, Fortune, 19 July 2026
Noun
  • It's been nearly a decade since The Night Manager ensnared viewers in its sticky web of arms dealers, secret agents, and dodgy bureaucrats.
    Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The show includes high-stakes undercover operations and night chases to secret agents, treasure maps, and vast sums of black-market money changing hands.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 7 Jan. 2026
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“Intelligencers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intelligencers. Accessed 20 Jul. 2026.

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