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spy
noun as in person who secretly finds out about another's business
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agent, detective, informer, investigator, mole, operative, secret agent, secret service, undercover agent
Strong matches
emissary, lookout, observer, patrol, plant, scout, sleeper, sleuth, snoop, spotter, watcher
Weak matches
double agent, espionage agent, foreign agent, inside agent, intelligencer, plumber
verb as in secretly follow, watch another's actions
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case, eyeball, glimpse, meddle, notice, observe, peep, pry, reconnoiter, scout, search, shadow, sleuth, spot, stag, tail, trail, view, watch
Weak matches
catch sight of, fish out, get a load of, keep under surveillance, look for, recon, set eyes on, stake out, take in, take note
Example Sentences
As one might expect, a telepathic first grader with a wild imagination who lives with a spy and an assassin can get caught up in plenty of shenanigans.
She would also make a “good detective, spy, and criminal mastermind. And undertaker.”
I did have some temporary escapes: places where there were no spies, where there were different friends, or where there were other things to occupy my mind.
Around 2,000 North Korean soldiers are believed to have been killed in combat, Seoul's spy agency said in September.
MI5, the U.K.’s domestic spy agency, said that Chinese authorities dispatched a Chinese businessman to cultivate a relationship with the down-and-out prince in a bid to promote the interest of the Communist Party.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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