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
But, during the trials, you were named as someone who interrogated Aquash for being an informant.
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Nick Estes, New Yorker, 26 June 2025
Privacy advocates have expressed concern that the program, and Ring’s accompanying Neighbors app, have heightened the risk of racial profiling and turned residents into informants, with few guardrails around how law enforcement can use the material.
—Annie Palmer, CNBC, 25 June 2025
In 2020, the high court ruled that Muslim men who claimed their religious rights were violated for being placed on the government’s no-fly list after refusing to serve as FBI informants could sue the FBI agents for damages.
—Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 24 June 2025
Meanwhile, Harlan has Clyde the Sheriff all over him about what the DEA thinks is going on and how the Buckleys better be careful because there are informants and agents all over the place.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 19 June 2025
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Nick Estes, New Yorker, 26 June 2025
Privacy advocates have expressed concern that the program, and Ring’s accompanying Neighbors app, have heightened the risk of racial profiling and turned residents into informants, with few guardrails around how law enforcement can use the material.
—Annie Palmer, CNBC, 25 June 2025
In 2020, the high court ruled that Muslim men who claimed their religious rights were violated for being placed on the government’s no-fly list after refusing to serve as FBI informants could sue the FBI agents for damages.
—Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 24 June 2025
Meanwhile, Harlan has Clyde the Sheriff all over him about what the DEA thinks is going on and how the Buckleys better be careful because there are informants and agents all over the place.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 19 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for informant
informer
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The Nazis set up secret squads in the camps to conduct beatings and killings of prisoners thought to be too friendly with U.S. officials or were accused of being informers.—
Peter Lucas,
Boston Herald,
10 July 2025
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Reporting from human intelligence assets – spies or unwitting informers with firsthand or secondhand knowledge – may provide information on internal Iranian assessments.—
Joshua Rovner,
The Conversation,
2 July 2025
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“Informant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/informant. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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