informants

Example Sentences

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Sacha Zala, president of the Swiss Society for History, is "absolutely sure there is nothing relevant about Mengele", but thinks there may be references to a foreign intelligence service or foreign informants.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

The Justice Department alleges the group defrauded contributors by secretly paying more than $3 million between 2014 and 2023 to informants inside extremist groups.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

And so you bet we paid these informants who shared information with us, and guess what we did with it?

From Slate • May 4, 2026

“The Department of Justice also knows that these confidential informants helped law enforcement put violent extremists in jail.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

In fairness, however, other Southern whites roundly condemned it and claimed it was not as typical as my informants suggested.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin