spymaster

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Recent Examples of spymaster When a murder throws the stability of the realm of Albion into doubt, royal spymaster Hugh Thornton turns to Viola, whose magic may be the land's only hope — though their partnership gets off to a rocky start. Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 20 Jan. 2026 The series was first reported to be on the marketplace back in March with Matthew Macfadyen attached to play legendary spymaster George Smiley, with The Ink Factory producing and Fifth Season distributing. Joe Otterson, Variety, 2 Dec. 2025 Legendary spymaster Al Pacino finds brilliant tech-head Colin Farrell and recruits him into the CIA, hinting strongly that the young man’s late father was also working for the organization. Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025 Published earlier this year, the book dives into the work of Sidney Gottlieb, an infamous chemist and spymaster at the CIA known as The Black Sorcerer. Brian Welk, IndieWire, 22 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for spymaster
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Noun
  • According to Alessandro Usielli, head of Ford global brand entertainment, Aston Martin, Jaguar, Land Rover and Ford have all worked with the Bond franchise to introduce new models by providing cars for the superspy, his coterie of comely conquests and his villainous adversaries.
    Brett Berk, HollywoodReporter, 24 May 2026
  • Getty Images Five years after Daniel Craig’s retirement from playing James Bond, the studio has taken a big step in finding who will play the famed superspy next.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
Noun
  • One of State Security’s main goals, as well as a central source of its strength, is turning civilians into informers.
    Abraham Jiménez Enoa, The Dial, 19 May 2026
  • And so every regime invests in having student informers.
    Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Beazley continued reviewing footage, and noticed that the infiltrator’s reflective vest bore the insignia of the security firm that had installed the cameras.
    James Verini, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Last Saturday, an Islamic State infiltrator ambushed a meeting between American soldiers and their local counterparts in a Syrian desert town.
    Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Shadow Alliance Former National Security Agency counterspy John Schindler wrote on his Top Secret Umbra blog in January 2024 that Epstein appeared to have been part of a shadowy Israeli influence operation characterized as MEGA.
    Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 July 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • The bar was set high from here, but even the best Bond games have only superficially tackled the essence of the spy fantasy.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2026
  • New intelligence shows that nearly 500,000 Russian soldiers have been killed since Vladimir Putin launched his country's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, according to Anne Keast-Butler, the new head of the United Kingdom's communications and cyber spy agency.
    Ramy Inocencio, CBS News, 28 May 2026

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“Spymaster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spymaster. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.

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