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or whistle-blower
as in reporter
a person who provides information about wrongdoing (as of an employer)
There are laws to protect whistleblowers who reveal govermental malfeasance.
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After meeting a whistleblower (Taylour Paige) aiming to reveal the company’s poisonous shenanigans, Winston runs afoul of punk-band baddies who toss him and his radioactive mop into a toxic-waste pool, and the reluctant superdude becomes a popular folk hero standing up for the people who need him.
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Brian Truitt, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
Ahmed stars as Ash, an anonymous broker who dodges that Orwellian surveillance to help sketchy companies and whistleblowers come to an agreement.
—Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 27 Aug. 2025
According to a whistleblower complaint filed by the chief data officer at the Social Security Administration, DOGE employees created a live copy of Social Security records for more than 300 million Americans and uploaded the data to a vulnerable cloud computing server.
—Jade Walker, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2025
The whistleblower report was from Chuck Borges, the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) chief data officer.
—Tobias Burns, The Hill, 26 Aug. 2025
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Brian Truitt, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
Ahmed stars as Ash, an anonymous broker who dodges that Orwellian surveillance to help sketchy companies and whistleblowers come to an agreement.
—Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 27 Aug. 2025
According to a whistleblower complaint filed by the chief data officer at the Social Security Administration, DOGE employees created a live copy of Social Security records for more than 300 million Americans and uploaded the data to a vulnerable cloud computing server.
—Jade Walker, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2025
The whistleblower report was from Chuck Borges, the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) chief data officer.
—Tobias Burns, The Hill, 26 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for whistleblower
Noun
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There were reporters and photographers all around, clamoring for interviews and pictures.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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Gloria Casas is a freelance reporter for The Courier-News.—
Gloria Casas,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Sep. 2025
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The duo plays Emily and Matt, a married pair of ex-CIA spies forced out of retirement and back into the world of espionage after their secret identities are revealed.—
Jacqueline Weiss,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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Cianfrance supplies a real jerk of a manager in Peter Dinklage’s Mitch, on whom Jeffrey spies by setting up baby monitors in the back office.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
7 Sep. 2025
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