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
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
A tape was later obtained by the BBC, in which Dignam admitted to being an informer for the British security services.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2024
A customer at a reptile trade show turned out to be a federal informer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2023
“An informer? He already knows everyone who participated in the ‘Incident’”—Ayesha uses air quotes—“and he hasn’t hauled us away.”
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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
The informers disappeared, and others refused to take their places.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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