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as in reporter
a person employed by a newspaper, magazine, or radio or television station to gather, write, or report news
the student journalist asked questions as probing as those of a seasoned intelligencer
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as in spy
a person who tries secretly to obtain information for one country in the territory of another usually unfriendly country
as the nation's top intelligencer, the director of the CIA should have been more skeptical of the information he was being fed
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intelligencer
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The China Film Administration (CFA), the body that handles film releases and quotas in the country, released a statement on Thursday in response to a reporter’s question about whether the Trump administration’s increasing tariffs on China would impact imports of American films.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 2025 -
Local news reports say that Lee’s arraignment is scheduled for Wednesday. Fernando Cervantes Jr. is a trending news reporter for USA TODAY.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr.,
USA Today,
9 Apr. 2025
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Elon Musk visited the CIA headquarters on Monday for talks on government efficiency, the spy agency director of public affairs Liz Lyons told Axios.—
Barak Ravid,
Axios,
1 Apr. 2025
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Chilean writer-director Felipe Gálvez, whose debut feature The Settlers premiered in Cannes in 2023, has set his second feature film as Impunity, a spy thriller set in the late 1990s around the arrest of dictator Augusto Pinochet.—
Diana Lodderhose,
Deadline,
1 Apr. 2025
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Steven Erlanger is the chief diplomatic correspondent in Europe and is based in Berlin.—
Steven Erlanger,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy is a White House correspondent for USA TODAY.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
8 Apr. 2025
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Despite still not having an agent, Marshall had her managers secure her a script and even cut the reel for her self-tape herself.—
Ronda Racha Penrice,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Apr. 2025
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The defense pointed to several potential suspects at the home at the time, including Albert, his nephew and their friend, an agent for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives who had been exchanging flirty text messages with Read.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
5 Apr. 2025
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Photograph by Nicholas Venezia / Courtesy the Frick Collection Holbein’s Thomas Cromwell looks like a fastidiously evil Cabinet minister who would never accidentally add a journalist to his text chain; his Sir Thomas More looks like Laurence Olivier made up to play Sir Thomas More.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2025
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Although referred to as a journalist in Gaza, the IDF said Bardawil was involved in producing propaganda videos, including footage of Israeli hostages held by Hamas.—
Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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Back in 2015 Atwell had her own show, Agent Carter, back in the Agents of SHIELD era, chronicling her time as a government operative for two seasons.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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During the Cold War, a similar ban was imposed in 1987 after a U.S. Marine in Moscow was compromised by a Soviet operative.—
Lee Habeeb,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Apr. 2025
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“Intelligencer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intelligencer. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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