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In the fall of 2022, U.S. and Russian spymasters met in Turkey amid U.S. concerns that Russia could resort to nuclear weapons amid battlefield setbacks.
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Matthew Lee, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2025
Russia is likely to include Yuri Ushakov, his chief Kremlin foreign policy advisor, and spymaster Sergei Naryshkin, as well as financier Kirill Dmitriev, who may play a role as an unofficial back-channel with Trump's negotiators, Bloomberg reported.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 16 Feb. 2025
And in the fall of 2022, U.S. and Russian spymasters met in Turkey to address concerns that Moscow could use nuclear weapons in the war.
—Landon Mion, Fox News, 18 Feb. 2025
Relying on his newfound fame, the spymaster published Yardleygrams, a collection of cryptologic puzzles designed to teach readers how to become amateur cryptologists.
—Peter Zablocki, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Feb. 2025
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Matthew Lee, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2025
Russia is likely to include Yuri Ushakov, his chief Kremlin foreign policy advisor, and spymaster Sergei Naryshkin, as well as financier Kirill Dmitriev, who may play a role as an unofficial back-channel with Trump's negotiators, Bloomberg reported.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 16 Feb. 2025
And in the fall of 2022, U.S. and Russian spymasters met in Turkey to address concerns that Moscow could use nuclear weapons in the war.
—Landon Mion, Fox News, 18 Feb. 2025
Relying on his newfound fame, the spymaster published Yardleygrams, a collection of cryptologic puzzles designed to teach readers how to become amateur cryptologists.
—Peter Zablocki, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spymaster
Noun
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All stakeholders could do worse than consider Alexander Skarsgard’s offering of a Swedish James Bond, a superspy with all the requisite Bond trappings – tuxedo, licence to kill, way with the ladies – but with a particularly Scandinavian flair.—
Caroline Frost,
Deadline,
3 May 2025
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The goal is to find a new home for the franchise and make the superspy a more regular presence onscreen.—
Aaron Couch,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Singh says that the Kashmir policy of India's Hindu nationalist government has alienated residents of Kashmir, and cost the Indian army its vital network of local informers.—
Omkar Khandekar,
NPR,
23 Apr. 2025
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The book’s cast of characters is immense, including spies and informers, dubious bankers, Mafiosos, terrorists, radical priests who support the poor, and conservatives who back right-wing dictators.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Sep. 2019
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This wasn’t difficult to do, and the U.S. reacted with defensive measures, deploying FBI counterspies throughout the hemisphere.—
Nicholas Reynolds,
WSJ,
24 Oct. 2018
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Trump also singled out Aston Martin cars, the ride James Bond uses in the iconic spy movies, while speaking to reporters Wednesday.—
Rachel Barber,
USA Today,
9 May 2025
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Such is the thrust of their latest foray into international programming, a series based on the life of Marie-Antoine Carême, a legendary figure in French culinary history — he is referenced as a gastronomic god in The Taste of Things — who has been transformed into a dashing twink spy.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
8 May 2025
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“Spymaster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spymaster. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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