informant
Example Sentences
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According to the informant, Perez said he was driving with three others in his green Honda Accord when they spotted a pickup truck.
From Los Angeles Times
Sometimes it plays out smoothly, like when he talks Roman history with informant Frank Pentangeli in “Part II,” letting him know that his family would be taken care of should he die.
From Los Angeles Times
Department of Justice announced just before Christmas Eve it would stop monitoring the Orange County district attorney’s use of jailhouse informants.
From Los Angeles Times
Ryan won an award from the New York Press Club in 2018 for coverage of a jailhouse informant scandal in Detroit.
Left by themselves to fight for answers, his mother Margaret and brother Eugene, both now dead, came to suspect collusion between British security forces and informants – meaning state agents - in the group responsible.
From BBC
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