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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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Definitively identifying seeding trials requires access to internal sponsor documents revealing the intent of the study, and those documents surface only through litigation or whistleblowers.
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Sukhun Kang, The Conversation, 6 May 2026
The whistleblower, Verity Investigations, is expected to receive more than $119,000.
—Charlotte Observer, 4 May 2026
Adamus sued the office as a whistleblower in 2019, claiming he was pressured to give favorable treatment to connected taxpayers, and was awarded damages as a result.
—Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
Some of those probes were brought to the DOJ’s attention by whistleblowers, Jenny said in February at a Federal Bar Association event.
—Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
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Sukhun Kang, The Conversation, 6 May 2026
The whistleblower, Verity Investigations, is expected to receive more than $119,000.
—Charlotte Observer, 4 May 2026
Adamus sued the office as a whistleblower in 2019, claiming he was pressured to give favorable treatment to connected taxpayers, and was awarded damages as a result.
—Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
Some of those probes were brought to the DOJ’s attention by whistleblowers, Jenny said in February at a Federal Bar Association event.
—Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for whistleblower
Noun
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Jonathan Dienst Jonathan Dienst is chief justice contributor for NBC News and chief investigative reporter for WNBC-TV in New York.—
Tom Winter,
NBC news,
7 May 2026
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Paris Barraza is a reporter covering Los Angeles and Southern California for the USA TODAY Network.—
Paris Barraza,
USA Today,
7 May 2026
Noun
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Hong Kong — China’s top spy agency has come out of the shadows to warn that its young people are being duped by foreign forces into shirking hard work and prioritizing their individual emotions at the expense of national development.—
Sylvie Zhuang,
CNN Money,
7 May 2026
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Lu’s lawyer, John Carman portrayed the case as a mundane bureaucratic blip, not an international spy thriller.—
Michael R. Sisak,
Fortune,
6 May 2026
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