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as in gossiper
a person who habitually reveals personal or sensational facts about others
statehouse talebearers had long spread stories about the governor's extramarital affairs
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as in informant
a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing
the teacher told him not to be such a talebearer, as she was quite capable of detecting student misbehavior on her own
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Noun
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Celebrity gossiper Rob Shuter reported that the two recently let go of a number of their staff.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
3 Sep. 2025 -
Her staff figured out how to get rid of the gossiper.—
Ronda Racha Penrice,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Aug. 2025
Noun
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To date, none of the criminal complaints filed in this case mention any anti-gay text messages, social media posts or comments made by the defendants, whose communications were being secretly monitored and taped by undercover informants and agents.—
John Wisely,
Freep.com,
10 Nov. 2025
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In 2020, the high court ruled that Muslim men who claimed their religious rights were violated for being placed on the government’s no-fly list after refusing to serve as FBI informants could sue the FBI agents for damages.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
10 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The key to calm is to not crash over a tidbit of gossip.—
Lisa Stardust,
Refinery29,
6 Nov. 2025
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Group dynamics could shift, gossip may circulate and career moves are more likely to be misunderstood.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Frizer and Skeres were fraudsters, and the sinister Poley was an informer, crucial to the exposure of the Babington Plot.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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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
Noun
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Meta’s recent mass layoffs on its AI team are a potential canary in the coal mine, signaling that AI companies might be realizing the boom is coming to an end.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Oct. 2025
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But some of the interiors seem to belong to another house, like a cheap-looking finished basement with canary-yellow walls and a bathroom with, oddly, a urinal.—
Adriane Quinlan,
Curbed,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Talebearer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/talebearer. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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