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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.
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Caroline Frost, Deadline, 3 May 2025
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
Connery’s second outing as the superspy is more grounded than both its predecessor and the sequels to come, teaming Bond up with a female Russian agent (Italian actress Daniela Bianchi, overdubbed by Barbara Jefford) to outwit the evil SPECTRE in Turkey.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
Amazon now owns the Bond series, ushering in a new era for the superspy.
—Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
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Caroline Frost, Deadline, 3 May 2025
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
Connery’s second outing as the superspy is more grounded than both its predecessor and the sequels to come, teaming Bond up with a female Russian agent (Italian actress Daniela Bianchi, overdubbed by Barbara Jefford) to outwit the evil SPECTRE in Turkey.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
Amazon now owns the Bond series, ushering in a new era for the superspy.
—Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for superspy
Noun
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When spymaster George Smiley presents one final mission — dangerous, deceptive, and deeply personal — Leamas agrees to stay in the game.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
21 May 2025
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Past high-profile campaigns have included targeting three nuclear research laboratories in the U.S. in the summer of 2022, and the publishing of the private emails of former British spymaster Richard Dearlove, alongside pro-Brexit individuals, in an operation revealed in May 2022.—
Deborah Sophia,
USA Today,
9 May 2025
Noun
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Over the past eight decades, the CCP has constructed a vast network of millions of informers and spies whose often unpaid work has been critical to the regime’s survival.—
Minxin Pei,
Foreign Affairs,
6 Feb. 2024
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The Nazis set up secret squads in the camps to conduct beatings and killings of prisoners thought to be too friendly with U.S. officials or were accused of being informers.—
Peter Lucas,
Boston Herald,
10 July 2025
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“Superspy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superspy. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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