: 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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Framed as a confession by the child of a Frenchman and a Vietnamese woman, the narrator is a double agent with an unforgettable voice recalling Graham Greene and Vladimir Nabokov.—Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2025 And that was before Lizzie’s husband was murdered by a double agent.—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 6 Apr. 2025 There’s the Red Queen going double agent for our heroes, and there’s finally an answer to the T-Virus.—Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025 Fassbender’s character, George Woodhouse, is tasked with finding out the identity of a double agent who is trying to sell a deadly cyberweapon to foreign buyers.—Brent Lang, Variety, 14 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for double agent
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