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as in reporters
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 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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intelligencers
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On a call from Mexico on Thursday with reporters, Estrada Juarez, 42, said DACA was supposed to protect people like her who work hard and follow the rules.—
Andrea Castillo,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2026 -
The Department of Defense is working to schedule the dignified transfer, Leavitt told reporters at White House press briefing on March 4.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
5 Mar. 2026
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The indelible action-adventure of a pair of kids (Daryl Sabara and Alexa PenaVega) who find out their parents (Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino) are spies and must go rescue them is so goofy and entertaining.—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2026
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Dreeke helped catch foreign spies operating on American soil.—
Kim Hjelmgaard,
USA Today,
26 Feb. 2026
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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,
9 Mar. 2026
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Belarus now imprisons 28 journalists as President Lukashenko intensifies a crackdown on press freedom.—
Yuras Karmanau,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Mar. 2026
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Using a special encryption code, the operatives could translate the numerals into a readable message.—
Richard Winton,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2026
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Republican operatives have pointed to Kim’s lukewarm support of the president in previous years.—
Rachel Schilke,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Mar. 2026
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Under that plan, CBS would have maintained a few of its signature overseas correspondents, while shuttering its bureaus around the world.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2026
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Instead of just relying on the network’s standard correspondents, the network’s broadcast seemed to lean equally on Free Press favorites and proponents for Iran strikes.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
2 Mar. 2026
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Escobar also met with a detainee from Ecuador who said his arm had been broken during a violent arrest by immigration agents in Minnesota.—
Morgan Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Mar. 2026
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The white phosphorus then ignites and burns intensely, destroying the agents by incinerating them – a method meant to reduce the risk of spreading the materials and to limit potential harm to civilians and the surrounding environment.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Mar. 2026
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The meetings come as the Republican administration seeks to leverage military assets to restore dominance in the hemisphere while now also fighting a war in Iran.—
JOSHUA GOODMAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
Arkansas Online,
6 Mar. 2026
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Investors who need to sell their physical gold assets, on the other hand, will typically need to do so through a precious metal dealer or individual buyer.—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
5 Mar. 2026
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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
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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 13 Mar. 2026.
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