variants
or whistle-blowers
as in informants
a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing
there are laws to protect whistle-blowers who reveal corporate malfeasance
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Recent Examples of whistleblowers
The attorney announced earlier this year that the department had expanded the incentives for whistleblowers who reported a slew of crimes, including customs fraud and tariff evasion.
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Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 5 Sep. 2025
The Program works in parallel with the existing corporate leniency policy but does not offer leniency protection to whistleblowers.
—Alden Abbott, Forbes.com, 29 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
In Relay, however, the service is used to maintain anonymity by a man (Riz Ahmed) whose name might be Tom, or Ash, or something else, a cool, methodical professional who helps protect whistleblowers that have had a change of heart.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
Riz Ahmed stars in the film as Ash, an off-the-grid fixer who brokers deals between whistleblowers and corrupt corporations.
—EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Relay, from director David Mackenzie and writer Justin Piasecki, stars Ahmed as an enigmatic fixer who protects corporate whistleblowers via an anonymous relay call center.
—Jack Smart, People.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Do fixers like Riz’s Ash actually exist for whistleblowers who get cold feet and want to put the genie back in the bottle?
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2025
By law, whistleblowers receive 10-30% of sanctions.
—Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 5 Sep. 2025
The Program works in parallel with the existing corporate leniency policy but does not offer leniency protection to whistleblowers.
—Alden Abbott, Forbes.com, 29 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
In Relay, however, the service is used to maintain anonymity by a man (Riz Ahmed) whose name might be Tom, or Ash, or something else, a cool, methodical professional who helps protect whistleblowers that have had a change of heart.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
Riz Ahmed stars in the film as Ash, an off-the-grid fixer who brokers deals between whistleblowers and corrupt corporations.
—EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Relay, from director David Mackenzie and writer Justin Piasecki, stars Ahmed as an enigmatic fixer who protects corporate whistleblowers via an anonymous relay call center.
—Jack Smart, People.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Do fixers like Riz’s Ash actually exist for whistleblowers who get cold feet and want to put the genie back in the bottle?
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2025
By law, whistleblowers receive 10-30% of sanctions.
—Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for whistleblowers
Noun
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Breyer barred troops from such actions, including making arrests, searches, acting as informants and collecting evidence.—
OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Sep. 2025
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Records systems used by the Department of Justice and defense counsels have been breached, according to Politico, and the hack could expose highly sensitive information on informants, witnesses and sealed cases.—
Thomas Brewster,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
Noun
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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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“Whistleblowers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whistleblowers. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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