superspy

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Recent Examples of superspy Sean Connery originated the role of the suave British superspy, followed by David Niven, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and Craig. Shania Russell, EW.com, 30 July 2025 And the more adult-skewing M:I8 sold $77.5 million (a franchise best for the 29-year-old Paramount superspy series that tops Mission: Impossible — Fallout’s $61.2 million debut), helping pack in audiences over a four-day holiday release corridor that grossed a cumulative $322 million. Chris Lee, Vulture, 27 May 2025 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 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 See All Example Sentences for superspy
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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • Option 2: If one prisoner informs while the other stays silent, the informer will go free while the silent one receives the harshest sentence.
    Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
  • 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 8 Sep. 2025.

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