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
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.
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Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
David Mackenzie, 112 minutes The great Riz Ahmed stars as a fixer who brokers deals between corporations and whistleblowers, usually keeping the identity of the latter secret through an old-fashioned relay system.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
Updates include expanding limits on pardon power, new provisions regarding the dismissal of criminal prosecutions, strengthening congressional subpoena enforcement and asserting lawmakers' power of the purse and protecting whistleblowers.
—Isabella Murray, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2025
Not long after the allegations were made public, all seven whistleblowers had either resigned or been fired.
—Kimberly Ross, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
The hearing featured testimony from multiple witnesses described as whistleblowers with experience in military UAP incidents.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
Continue reading … SAFETY GAPS – Hawley pushes legal action against Meta after whistleblowers detail child abuse in VR.
—FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2025
That includes laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, gender, and other classifications and laws protecting whistleblowers from retaliation.
—Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2025
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.
—Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 5 Sep. 2025
Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
David Mackenzie, 112 minutes The great Riz Ahmed stars as a fixer who brokers deals between corporations and whistleblowers, usually keeping the identity of the latter secret through an old-fashioned relay system.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
Updates include expanding limits on pardon power, new provisions regarding the dismissal of criminal prosecutions, strengthening congressional subpoena enforcement and asserting lawmakers' power of the purse and protecting whistleblowers.
—Isabella Murray, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2025
Not long after the allegations were made public, all seven whistleblowers had either resigned or been fired.
—Kimberly Ross, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
The hearing featured testimony from multiple witnesses described as whistleblowers with experience in military UAP incidents.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
Continue reading … SAFETY GAPS – Hawley pushes legal action against Meta after whistleblowers detail child abuse in VR.
—FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2025
That includes laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, gender, and other classifications and laws protecting whistleblowers from retaliation.
—Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2025
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.
—Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 5 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for whistleblowers
Noun
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Sanders, in a motion to the court, accused the initial prosecutor in the case, Tony Rackauckas, of manipulating evidence dealing with jailhouse informants.—
Tony Saavedra,
Oc Register,
17 Sep. 2025
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Kentucky's vast wilderness and mountainous regions served as hideaways for bootleggers, Rein said, while the government used paid informants to sniff them out.—
Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
16 Sep. 2025
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Maurice is convinced that Tall Pines is brainwashing teens and then sending them to who-knows-where to work as spies.—
Erin Qualey,
Vulture,
25 Sep. 2025
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The crackdown was ostensibly to ferret out spies, but in many cases the security forces used the war as a pretext to detain ethnic and religious minorities as well as Afghan migrants, according to Amnesty International.—
Babak Dehghanpisheh,
NBC news,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Whistleblowers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whistleblowers. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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