spies
Example Sentences
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The Emmy-nominated, darkly comic thriller about a unit of disgraced British spies — starring Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden and Kristen Scott Thomas — remains sharp and propulsive, one of the best series on TV.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
The Telegraph suggests Burnham's visit has also seen him receive a "gold mine" of secret battlefield intelligence to help "protect the UK from Russian spies and saboteurs".
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
But one can argue that Adjani couldn’t have gotten there without the slightly milquetoast banality of her character’s husband, played by Neill as one of the least exciting on-screen spies of the 1980s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
One of North Korea's best-known spies was Jeong Su-il, who entered South Korea in 1984 posing as Muhammed Kansu, a Filipino-Lebanese academic.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
But in 1942, those spies were using the same straightforward ciphers over and over again.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
