as in spying
the secret gathering of information on others
the acts of espionage on behalf of the Confederacy carried on by Belle Boyd and Rose Greenhow
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Since then, new spy movies have emerged from the shadows and joined the ranks, including Steven Soderbergh’s latest espionage thriller Black Bag.
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Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
As fears of espionage grew, more requirements were placed on Germans.
—Kate Linderman, Miami Herald, 17 Mar. 2025
Comments Pierce Brosnan is shaking and stirring up his role in the world of espionage.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 13 Mar. 2025
Soderbergh and Koepp, for their part, express their own fervent belief: in the seductive glamour of espionage and the magnetism of Blanchett’s and Fassbender’s interlocking gazes—which is to say, in the enveloping artifice and power of movies.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2025
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Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
As fears of espionage grew, more requirements were placed on Germans.
—Kate Linderman, Miami Herald, 17 Mar. 2025
Comments Pierce Brosnan is shaking and stirring up his role in the world of espionage.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 13 Mar. 2025
Soderbergh and Koepp, for their part, express their own fervent belief: in the seductive glamour of espionage and the magnetism of Blanchett’s and Fassbender’s interlocking gazes—which is to say, in the enveloping artifice and power of movies.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2025
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“Espionage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/espionage. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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