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As political tensions rose in 1938, Warner invited a group of Hollywood executives and insiders—director Mervyn LeRoy, actor Paul Muni, anti-Nazi spymaster and attorney Leon Lewis, and producer David O. Selznick—to read Morris Lazaron’s Common Ground: A Plea for Intelligent Americanism (1938).
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Chris Yogerst / Made By History, TIME, 6 Mar. 2025
In the fall of 2022, U.S. and Russian spymasters met in Turkey.
—Matthew Lee, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2025
In the fall of 2022, U.S. and Russian spymasters met in Turkey amid U.S. concerns that Russia could resort to nuclear weapons amid battlefield setbacks.
—Matthew Lee, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2025
Russia is likely to include Yuri Ushakov, his chief Kremlin foreign policy advisor, and spymaster Sergei Naryshkin, as well as financier Kirill Dmitriev, who may play a role as an unofficial back-channel with Trump's negotiators, Bloomberg reported.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 16 Feb. 2025
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Chris Yogerst / Made By History, TIME, 6 Mar. 2025
In the fall of 2022, U.S. and Russian spymasters met in Turkey.
—Matthew Lee, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2025
In the fall of 2022, U.S. and Russian spymasters met in Turkey amid U.S. concerns that Russia could resort to nuclear weapons amid battlefield setbacks.
—Matthew Lee, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2025
Russia is likely to include Yuri Ushakov, his chief Kremlin foreign policy advisor, and spymaster Sergei Naryshkin, as well as financier Kirill Dmitriev, who may play a role as an unofficial back-channel with Trump's negotiators, Bloomberg reported.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 16 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spymaster
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All stakeholders could do worse than consider Alexander Skarsgard’s offering of a Swedish James Bond, a superspy with all the requisite Bond trappings – tuxedo, licence to kill, way with the ladies – but with a particularly Scandinavian flair.—
Caroline Frost,
Deadline,
3 May 2025
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The goal is to find a new home for the franchise and make the superspy a more regular presence onscreen.—
Aaron Couch,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Mar. 2025
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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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During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Sep. 2019
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This wasn’t difficult to do, and the U.S. reacted with defensive measures, deploying FBI counterspies throughout the hemisphere.—
Nicholas Reynolds,
WSJ,
24 Oct. 2018
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The season also brings back Monica Barbaro — fresh off her Oscar nomination for A Complete Unknown — as Schwarzenegger’s spy dad’s daughter.—
James Hibberd,
HollywoodReporter,
20 May 2025
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Paramount, the studio behind the eighth spy thriller, also hosted premieres in Tokyo and London.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
19 May 2025
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“Spymaster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spymaster. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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