as in informer
a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing
the FBI is working closely with informants to find out about the subversive group
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Recent Examples of informant
The shooting continued for 20 minutes until all 10 agents and their informant were dead.
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Tim Golden, ProPublica, 29 Apr. 2025
Her most notable reporting has been about taxes, including exposing billionaire tax cheats and writing cover stories on tax shelters (both corporate and individual), tax evasion, tax informants, tax administration, tax policy and legitimate tax planning.
—Emma Whitford, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Prosecutors began investigating the ring in June 2022, when a confidential informant in an unrelated case provided information about Williams’ operation, according to the affidavit of probable cause for his arrest.
—Vinny Vella, Hartford Courant, 19 Apr. 2025
But their evidence relies on a confidential informant and clothing Garcia was wearing in 2019 police encounter.
—Michael Collins, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
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Tim Golden, ProPublica, 29 Apr. 2025
Her most notable reporting has been about taxes, including exposing billionaire tax cheats and writing cover stories on tax shelters (both corporate and individual), tax evasion, tax informants, tax administration, tax policy and legitimate tax planning.
—Emma Whitford, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Prosecutors began investigating the ring in June 2022, when a confidential informant in an unrelated case provided information about Williams’ operation, according to the affidavit of probable cause for his arrest.
—Vinny Vella, Hartford Courant, 19 Apr. 2025
But their evidence relies on a confidential informant and clothing Garcia was wearing in 2019 police encounter.
—Michael Collins, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for informant
informer
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Singh says that the Kashmir policy of India's Hindu nationalist government has alienated residents of Kashmir, and cost the Indian army its vital network of local informers.—
Omkar Khandekar,
NPR,
23 Apr. 2025
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The book’s cast of characters is immense, including spies and informers, dubious bankers, Mafiosos, terrorists, radical priests who support the poor, and conservatives who back right-wing dictators.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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“Informant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/informant. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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