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