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as in spy
a person who tries secretly to obtain information for one country in the territory of another usually unfriendly country as the nation's top intelligencer, the director of the CIA should have been more skeptical of the information he was being fed

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Noun
  • For years, Wilson has been asked the same questions, either by reporters or friends back in Ontario.
    Sean Gentille, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Associated Press reporters Tim Reynolds in Miami, David Lieb in Jefferson City, Missouri, and Alan Suderman in Richmond, Virginia, contributed to this report.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Classified spy satellites are the Ferraris of the space world.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • In recent years, The View dressed a child as an Oscar with a red handprint on their face to commemorate the infamous Will Smith Oscars slap, and dressed another kid as the legendary Chinese spy balloon one year later.
    Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Breaking news will be part of the mix, drawing on CNN’s international correspondents, but also planned are other segments, like movie reviews, Michaelson said.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The service processes transactions to over 130 countries with reduced settlement times, though still requiring traditional correspondent banking infrastructure.
    Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But the lack of transparency and due process are similar, and there are few to no guarantees of the safety of people whom ICE agents remove, often without identifying themselves, and move around without notifying the family or lawyers of the detained.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Trump’s former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, was one of the first people to publicly condemn the selection of Bad Bunny, going as far as threatening that ICE agents would be present at the Super Bowl next year.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Diane Brady is an award-winning business journalist and author who has interviewed newsmakers worldwide and often speaks about the global business landscape.
    Diane Brady, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The one-of-a-kind immersive activation was designed to spotlight the Austrian crystal brand’s milestone 130 years in business and is the brainchild of Swarovski global creative director Giovanna Engelbert, curated with the help of British fashion journalist and critic Alexander Fury.
    Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Only weeks later, on September 11, al-Qaeda operatives hijacked four passenger planes and carried out the deadliest terrorist attack in modern history, killing nearly 3,000 people.
    Big Think, Big Think, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The Gardaí believe that the smuggling attempt was arranged and co-financed by the Kinahans, Colombia’s Clan del Golfo, and Hezbollah operatives based in Venezuela.
    Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
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“Intelligencer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intelligencer. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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