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informant

[in-fawr-muhnt] / ɪnˈfɔr mənt /


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She added to the informant on an encrypted messaging app that she had "picked up some anarchist literature at the social justice center" which "could have some good tips."

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

An informant would tell them the attack was rooted in a chain-snatching at the Lakewood Mall two months earlier.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Berger, a former informant known, according to Mr. Oltermann, for his “monkish asceticism,” embodied a “sense of poetic mission”—though his own verse talents were minimal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

In The Sopranos, Pastore played Tony Soprano's best friend who ultimately became an informant for the FBI.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

In search of an informant, she worked over Louie’s schoolmates with homemade pie and turned up a soft boy named Hugh, whose sweet tooth was Louie’s undoing.

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand

In 1962, a full 17 percent of the membership was reported to be federal informants.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026

Many told us they referred to Luka as "The Spider" because of his vast web of allies and informants, including some embedded in rebel groups.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

It said they identified those behind the abduction and dismantled their support network, including informants and hideouts in the Old Oyo National Park forest.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

The Interior Ministry, with an estimated 140,000 state security officials and 500,000 informants, monitors and infiltrates dissident movements.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

Factories, public enterprises, and neighborhoods have been ordered to produce two tons of toibee, according to Good Friends, a Buddhist charity with informants in North Korea.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden


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