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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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Recent Examples of whistleblower
After hearing from victims and whistleblowers, the House intelligence committee started looking into complaints that the CIA and other agencies withheld medical treatment for the officers affected.
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Nora Gamez Torres, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
Jeremy Strong will take over the role of Zuckerberg, with Mikey Madison as whistleblower Frances Haugen and Jeremy Allen White as Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horowitz, who broke a series of articles known as ‘The Facebook Files’.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2025
Multiple whistleblowers alleged that DOGE uploaded a highly sensitive Social Security Administration (SSA) database to an unmonitored cloud environment, according to a report by Senate Democratic staff.
—Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
The result is a bill that insists on safety frameworks, incident reports, whistleblower protections, and a public compute resource, but stops short of imposing the same sweeping mandates that alarmed lawmakers and industry last year.
—The Ai Insider, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2025
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Nora Gamez Torres, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
Jeremy Strong will take over the role of Zuckerberg, with Mikey Madison as whistleblower Frances Haugen and Jeremy Allen White as Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horowitz, who broke a series of articles known as ‘The Facebook Files’.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2025
Multiple whistleblowers alleged that DOGE uploaded a highly sensitive Social Security Administration (SSA) database to an unmonitored cloud environment, according to a report by Senate Democratic staff.
—Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
The result is a bill that insists on safety frameworks, incident reports, whistleblower protections, and a public compute resource, but stops short of imposing the same sweeping mandates that alarmed lawmakers and industry last year.
—The Ai Insider, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for whistleblower
Noun
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Sydney Sasser is a business reporter with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.—
Sydney Sasser,
Arkansas Online,
11 Oct. 2025
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As an editor at The Star, Cummings has worked with reporters in breaking news, local government accountability, politics, investigations and service journalism, among others.—
The Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Deadline has confirmed that the original artwork was replaced by stills from the Ian Fleming spy movies over the weekend, following a social media backlash that coincided with James Bond Day on October 5.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
6 Oct. 2025
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Another serendipitous development that’s got Petrie excited is the upcoming second season of The Night Manager with Tom Hiddleston, the British spy thriller adapted from John le Carré’s 1993 novel.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Oct. 2025
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“Whistleblower.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whistleblower. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.
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