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The next step will be to lock in the actor who will fill the suave superspy’s Savile Row suits.
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Angelique Jackson, Variety, 31 July 2025
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
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Angelique Jackson, Variety, 31 July 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for superspy
Noun
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Dan Stevens will take on the role of the enigmatic spymaster and has been joined in the buzzy John le Carré adaptation by All Quiet on the Western Front lead Felix Kammerer and Agnes O’Casey (Black Doves), who takes on the key role of Liz Gold.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
13 Apr. 2026
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The project was overseen by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the President’s brother and the nation’s spymaster.—
Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
Noun
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And so every regime invests in having student informers.—
Anne Applebaum,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2026
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The whole family is deeply involved in the revolutionary movement: the oldest son disappears into Siberia, never to be seen or heard of again, while the youngest, eighteen, is jailed together with his father, and executed after his cell is exposed by an informer.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Superspy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superspy. Accessed 16 Apr. 2026.
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