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
Caroline Moreland's daughter, Shauna, said she wanted to know why, if her mother was an informer, the state had not intervened to save her.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2024
He was also the teacher’s most trusted informer.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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
One of the three suspected informers was Johnny Dignam, a 32-year-old IRA member and former Republican prisoner from Portadown.
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
His words are dangerous and foolhardy, for Nazi informers lurk everywhere.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
