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as in informant
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as in handicapper
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Recent Examples of tipster
Behind the scenes, Descovich has been a tipster for agencies that investigate schools over transgender sports and bathroom policies.
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Collin Binkley, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026
The award, announced in an order Tuesday, didn’t identify the whistleblower or name the firm that the tipster flagged to the regulator — in line with longstanding agency practice.
—Nicola M White, Bloomberg, 7 Apr. 2026
Behind the scenes, Descovich has been a tipster for agencies that investigate schools over transgender sports and bathroom policies.
—ABC News, 4 Apr. 2026
The complaint adds that a tipster notified federal investigators about the scheme in January 2024.
—Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 25 Mar. 2026
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Collin Binkley, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026
The award, announced in an order Tuesday, didn’t identify the whistleblower or name the firm that the tipster flagged to the regulator — in line with longstanding agency practice.
—Nicola M White, Bloomberg, 7 Apr. 2026
Behind the scenes, Descovich has been a tipster for agencies that investigate schools over transgender sports and bathroom policies.
—ABC News, 4 Apr. 2026
The complaint adds that a tipster notified federal investigators about the scheme in January 2024.
—Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 25 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tipster
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The indictment alleges that the group, which is best known for its work to oppose the Ku Klux Klan, lied to donors about paying confidential informants to infiltrate hate groups and deceived banks about the bank accounts used to make those payments.—
Sarah N. Lynch,
CBS News,
26 May 2026
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Maybe every second man in those crazy groups was an informant.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
20 May 2026
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This question is less for the horse and more for the handicappers at Laurel: What element in Iron Honor put him fractionally ahead, by half a point, of co-second favorites Taj Mahal and Chip Honcho.—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
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Horses from Japan have to travel more than 6,000 miles and undergo quarantine to compete in the Derby, which is enough to make many handicappers shun them.—
Peter Keating,
New York Times,
1 May 2026
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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
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And so every regime invests in having student informers.—
Anne Applebaum,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2026
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Alongside the increases in prices over the past several months, there was a significant shift in speculator positions.—
SJ Guest Editorial,
Footwear News,
18 May 2026
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There is also an argument that dynamic ticketing prevents scalpers (known in the U.K. as touts) from being able to operate a secondary market for match tickets, though the counter argument to this is that bots and speculators will take their place.—
Simon Chadwick,
Forbes.com,
6 May 2026
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Pay no attention to the fact that it was proposed three weeks after the EPA came out hard against three-eyed fish, or that only three months ago, this same Legislature considered $100,000 court payouts to snitches willing to rat out mifepristone providers.—
Pat Beall,
Sun Sentinel,
29 May 2026
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Only one cardinal survived—smells like a snitch—and Urban was apparently disappointed by how little the other captive cardinals had screamed.—
Jane Bua,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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One of the arguments Kalshi has made for why its offerings aren’t gambling is that prediction market exchanges feature many oddsmakers—also known as market makers—who compete to offer lines rather than a single bookmaker.—
Dan Bernstein,
Sportico.com,
13 May 2026
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Unwilling to take orders or play by the rules of polite society, the two partner up as a bookmaker and his enforcer and run an illicit gambling operation that proves highly profitable — but dangerous.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
4 May 2026
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Despite undergoing surgery last week to address a broken pinky finger, New York center Mitchell Robinson will play in Game 1 tonight, the team told reporters.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
4 June 2026
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Those three names will be linked for a long time in NFL circles based on what happened going back as far as September of 2025, and then definitely through this offseason that was about, well, the relationship between the coach and the reporter.—
Armando Salguero,
FOXNews.com,
3 June 2026
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The Packers begin 2026 with the NFL fourth-longest losing streak, but the oddsmakers believe they’re set for a highly-successful season.—
Rob Reischel,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2026
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Saturday’s performance, where Israel will try to win its fifth Eurovision in history (oddsmakers currently have the country fifth out of 25) is likely to bring more of those disturbances.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
16 May 2026
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“Tipster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tipster. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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