double agent

noun

: a spy pretending to serve one government while actually serving another

Examples of double agent in a Sentence

He was secretly working as a double agent for the Americans during the war.
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Season 1 had plenty of satisfying, if predictable turns: the people living in a bubble, the double agent, the rebellion of Episodes 6 and 7, and the sinister nature of Sinatra/Samantha (Julianne Nicholson). Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 5 Mar. 2025 Nicholson’s Sinatra, meanwhile, was left incapacitated in a hospital bed after being shot by Jane (Nicole Brydon Bloom), the double agent who also murdered Billy (Jon Beavers). Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Mar. 2025 As the film opens, George is given a list of five key suspects all with similar security clearance who might be acting as a double agent. Pete Hammond, Deadline, 6 Mar. 2025 The group is thought to be responsible for the 2018 poisonings of a former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury in 2018. Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for double agent

Word History

First Known Use

1935, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of double agent was in 1935

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“Double agent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/double%20agent. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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