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
  • According to the Army, the media review emails were mistakenly sent to reporters, but the information in them is publicly available.
    Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Carter was not available for comment during the three days reporters were in the locker room.
    Zach Berman, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Set during the Great Depression, a Milwaukee detective’s quest to find a Wisconsin cheese heiress lands him in Hungary and on a collision course with history to meet Nazis, spies, and swing musicians in the octogenarian literary giant’s first novel in over a decade.
    Tomi Obaro, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The duo plays Emily and Matt, a married pair of ex-CIA spies forced out of retirement and back into the world of espionage after their secret identities are revealed.
    Jacqueline Weiss, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 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, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Wednesday referred journalists' questions to Russia's Defense Ministry.
    Will Gretsky, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • According to Joe Truzman, a senior analyst with the FDD, the Arrow Unit’s membership is drawn from multiple sources in Gaza, including police officers, operatives belonging to the Ministry of Interior’s security branches, fighters belonging to terrorist factions, and civilian volunteers.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • In 2010, Israeli operatives were successful in killing a senior Hamas operative in the United Arab Emirates.
    Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Fox News is set to make significant changes to its weekend lineup, giving new shows to Outnumbered co-host and former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany and current Fox White House correspondents Peter Doocy and Jacqui Heinrich.
    Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Heinrich and Doocy, Fox News' senior White House correspondents, are set to rotate as the weekly hosts of a brand-new morning show, The Sunday Briefing, which will take the place of MediaBuzz with Howie Kurtz.
    Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Paxton’s interest in Paul’s plight was bizarre, obsessive and so far beyond normal operations at the attorney general’s office that the agency’s top officials struggled to convey their concerns during the hourslong meeting with two FBI agents.
    Kimberly Ross, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The guild was involved with the WGA action in the States and has struck meaningful deals of late with the likes of the BBC, Netflix and the trade body that represents UK agents.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Do Now For users who still had assets in the wallet on July 7, the options are limited.
    Chris Groshong, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The thing is, rarely (if at all) have the Norwegians had assets as elite and deadly as Erling Haaland and Martin Odegaard.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
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“Intelligencers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intelligencers. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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