Thesaurus results for SECRET AGENT

secret agent

noun

as in spy

a person who tries secretly to obtain information for one country in the territory of another usually unfriendly country a secret agent posing as a government employee

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Recent Examples of secret agent 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 Rebel Wilson stars in the action comedy as an international secret agent invited to her best childhood friend's wedding. —

Brian Truitt, USA Today, 12 Dec. 2025 There’s a whole network of ordinary secret agents in Recife, some protecting, some selling information to the highest bidder. —

Lindsey Bahr, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Dec. 2025 Her international breakthrough came in 1997, playing Chinese secret agent Wai Lin in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies. —

Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 14 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for secret agent

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spy

Noun

Hong Kong — China’s top spy agency has come out of the shadows to warn that its young people are being duped by foreign forces into shirking hard work and prioritizing their individual emotions at the expense of national development.

— Sylvie Zhuang, CNN Money, 7 May 2026
Lu’s lawyer, John Carman portrayed the case as a mundane bureaucratic blip, not an international spy thriller.

— Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 6 May 2026