informer
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There is something about a healthy personality that feels repelled by a snoop, a snitch, a stool pigeon, an informer.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2025
"I think that's probably the only way it's going to be solved - someone on the inside becomes an informer."
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2025
He had lived across the street from DeLorean’s home in San Diego County and had turned informer in hopes of leniency.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2024
She could not believe her husband was an informer.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2024
There appeared to be reason for supposing that the drowned informer had hoped for a reward out of this forfeiture, and had obtained some accurate knowledge of Magwitch’s affairs.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
US forces found Maduro because of inside informers, the stepfather said.
From Barron's ● Jan. 19, 2026
It was, Mr. Corera writes, a “dead-end job,” but it offered access to documents that revealed the organization’s dark secrets, such as its labyrinth of informers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026
Only two or three rescues of suspected informers were ever successfully carried out.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2024
And as in any prison, the wardens select “trusties” among the prisoners for rewards and to serve as informers.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2023
Soviet informers sent their chief of intelligence nearly a hundred warnings of a planned German invasion.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
