How to Use spymaster in a Sentence
spymaster
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This is the first le Carré thriller in more than 25 years to feature spymaster George Smiley.
—Jocelyn McClurg, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2017
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But the spymasters who have jousted with Trump have no claim to purity.
—Jefferson Morley, The New Republic, 16 Sep. 2019
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One of the spymaster’s best agents, Kimball O’Hara, has gone missing in India.
—Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2019
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Daemon Targaryen’s old lover Mysaria, now a high-powered spymaster known as the White Worm.
—Sean T. Collins, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2022
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Then the prince’s former spymaster approaches Mer with a plan to steal the prince’s treasure, with a team of rogues that includes a corgi that might be a spy for the faeries.
—Charlie Jane Anders, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2022
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In this case, the last novel by British spymaster John le Carré, who died in December at 89.
—Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 22 Sep. 2021
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Unlike some of his comrades, who had escaped to the West with the help from foreign spymasters, Skripal was sent abroad on orders of the Kremlin.
—Simon Shuster, Time, 8 Mar. 2018
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What are the rules for America's spymasters in their race to prevent the next terrorist attack?
—CBS News, 18 May 2017
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Each team’s spymaster knows the agents’ secret identities but can only give one-word clues to their teammates.
—René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 3 Apr. 2020
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Some spymasters in Washington viewed Moscow as a lost cause.
—Sam Walker, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2019
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Two rival spymasters know the secret identities of 25 agents, and teams compete to contact all of their agents first with one-word clues that point to multiple words on the board.
—Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 27 Oct. 2023
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Kilmeade places 355 in the social circle of British spymaster and legendary party-thrower John André.
—Bill Bleyer, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2022
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The Soviet spymaster who oversaw a sprawling network of KGB agents abroad.
—Bernard McGhee, sacbee, 26 Dec. 2017
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Munir, who is a former spymaster, replaced Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa, who has retired from the post after a six-year term.
—Time, 29 Nov. 2022
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The book ends with a doctor performing surgery on a bedroom table to save the life of his teen-age son, who has shot himself in the chest after killing a Nazi spymaster who made advances toward him.
—Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
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The brothers keep secrets even from their boss, the dying spymaster Freddy Craven, a family-member-by-proxy and one of the book’s most winning characters.
—Nancy Kline, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2017
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Everyone from civil liberties groups to spymasters seems to agree that this is silly.
—Luke O'Brien, WIRED, 7 May 2007
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Dan Coats is not exactly Central Casting’s version of a spymaster.
—Massimo Calabresi, Time, 22 May 2018
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China’s Foreign Ministry would not confirm the former spymaster’s presence in Beijing, even though video footage showed him at the airport after his arrival from Pyongyang.
—New York Times, 29 May 2018
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Eventually Smiley does battle with the mole’s Soviet spymaster, Karla, his nemesis in the covert world.
—Tom Nolan, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2020
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General Walters was an Army officer, a diplomat, a spymaster, etc.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Dec. 2022
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Martin Kurtz, Israeli spymaster, recruits Charlie as a double agent.
—Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2020
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Israel’s police chief, Roni Alsheikh, is a former agent-handler and spymaster in Shin Bet, the internal security service.
—The Economist, 17 Feb. 2018
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John Jay, another Livingston in-law, had been a Revolutionary spymaster, diplomat, and politician who had helped write the state’s constitution.
—Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 24 Oct. 2019
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Thatcher, repeatedly subjected to the whim of the powerful, has been instructed by a ruthless spymaster to detect the king’s true religious beliefs: Protestant or Catholic?
—Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2020
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Once the war began, Tubman served as a Union spymaster, gathering intelligence from her network among the South's enslaved population.
—Mary Ann Gwinn Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 26 Mar. 2021
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For example, the role of Malory on the comedy Archer, which debuted in 2009, was essentially Lucille Bluth reborn—wicked, wounded—as a cartoon spymaster.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2021
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Generations of spymasters, dictators and tax inspectors concurred, and so, as the rubble of the Humanities confirms, did the French theorist Michel Foucault.
—Dominic Green, wsj.com, 5 May 2023
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Trump's choice to be the first female director of the CIA is a career spymaster who once ran an agency prison in Thailand where terror suspects were subjected to a harsh interrogation technique that the president has supported.
—Bryan Lowry, kansascity, 13 Mar. 2018
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So discreet was the spymaster that his prewar activities were largely forgotten.
—John Buntin, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2017
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