tip-off

Example Sentences

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Police began investigating Gill after tip-offs from their intelligence sources – including the FBI, who found messages to Gill on Voloshyn's phone when he travelled to the US in 2021.

From BBC

He says managers received an anonymous tip-off from a customer pointing out that the same team kept winning with near-perfect scores, prompting an investigation.

From BBC

But Penchukov slipped through the net thanks to a tip-off from someone he will not name.

From BBC

Thanks in part to the informant and his stream of tip-offs, the Salazares had regained territory they had lost to the Chapitos.

From Los Angeles Times

A decade later, it turned up at an arts and antiques fair in Maastricht and, following an anonymous tip-off, Dutch authorities determined it had been stolen and exported illegally.

From BBC