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as in instrumentality
something used to achieve an end
the whitening agent in the detergent is chlorine bleach the Church has been the traditional agent for social justice in impoverished countries
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2
as in deputy
a person who acts or does business for another
the sports agent negotiated a record-breaking contract for the baseball player
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3
as in ambassador
a person sent on a mission to represent another
an undercover agent of the Crown
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as in spy
a person who tries secretly to obtain information for one country in the territory of another usually unfriendly country
an agent feeding information about enemy troop movements
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Recent Examples of agent
Matsuoka began his media career at International Creative Management in Los Angeles as an agent trainee and has since spent his career bridging Hollywood and the Japanese film and television industry.
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Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2025
The agents arrived at Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet around 3:30 p.m., according to eyewitness Howie Rezendez, who filmed armed agents hopping off their vehicles and heading into the venue.
—Jasmine Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2025
As luck would have it, the pair shared an agent with the mega-star.
—ArsTechnica, 15 June 2025
Then in September, a Secret Service agent spotted the muzzle of a rifle sticking out of a fence in bushes at Trump's West Palm Beach golf club while scouting the course ahead of Trump.
—Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025
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Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2025
The agents arrived at Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet around 3:30 p.m., according to eyewitness Howie Rezendez, who filmed armed agents hopping off their vehicles and heading into the venue.
—Jasmine Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2025
As luck would have it, the pair shared an agent with the mega-star.
—ArsTechnica, 15 June 2025
Then in September, a Secret Service agent spotted the muzzle of a rifle sticking out of a fence in bushes at Trump's West Palm Beach golf club while scouting the course ahead of Trump.
—Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for agent
Noun
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Amtrak is also not considered a department, agency or instrumentality of the United States Government and its overseeing regulatory body, the OIG, remains open during shutdowns as well.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA TODAY,
20 Dec. 2024
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Amtrak is also not considered a department, agency or instrumentality of the United States Government and its overseeing regulatory body, the OIG, remains open during shutdowns as well.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA TODAY,
20 Dec. 2024
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Some of the photos were taken of the apartment in 2019 by a Transit American Services Inc. employee, said deputy district attorney Joseph Cannon, who prosecuted the case.—
Caelyn Pender,
Mercury News,
13 June 2025
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Multiple adults, including the mother, were monitoring the group of children swimming when the boy drowned, deputies said.—
Kate Linderman,
Kansas City Star,
13 June 2025
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On Saturday, Iran's UN ambassador said 78 people had been killed and more than 320 wounded since the start of Israel's attack.—
Rebecca Rosman,
NPR,
15 June 2025
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Iranian ambassador to the United Nations Saeed Amir Iravani said Friday that the Israeli strikes had thus far killed 78 people, the majority of them civilians, and injured more than 320.—
Tom O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 June 2025
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Ari Levinson in The Red Sea Diving Resort (2019) Inspired by a true story, Evans stars in this 2019 Netflix spy thriller as a Mossad agent named Ari Levinson.—
Devan Coggan,
EW.com,
13 June 2025
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Kennedy met with the CIA after a 1955 tour of the Soviet Union, relaying his observations to the spy agency as a voluntary informant, the documents show.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
13 June 2025
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Uber and Lyft representatives blasted the ordinance, while a crowd with the Chicago Gig Alliance organized by the Service Employees International Union Local 1 and Mechanics Local 701 packed the room and loudly chanted throughout the hearing.—
Jake Sheridan,
Chicago Tribune,
12 June 2025
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The Daily News has reached out to representatives for Perry and Bloom.—
Jami Ganz,
New York Daily News,
12 June 2025
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But signs the union was struggling to coalesce around a candidate became apparent earlier this week when no resolution was brought at the final delegate assembly before early voting begins on Saturday.—
Josephine Stratman,
New York Daily News,
13 June 2025
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Trying to build culture and delegate at the same time?—
Jimmie Lee,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2025
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The Republican operative Karl Rove has written an admiring book on McKinley.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
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Le Carré’s description of CIA-style abductions, where massed operatives overwhelm their target, bind his hands, and dress him in black goggles and headphones engineered to block all sight and sound of the outside world, derives from contemporary journalistic accounts.—
Rav Grewal-Kök
June 16,
Literary Hub,
16 June 2025
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The conductor of the group took turns touching each of their nipples with the dry ice, which burned them and prompted them to play their instrument.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
EW.com,
11 June 2025
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Many had to do with using instruments as voices and voices as instruments.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
11 June 2025
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“Agent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/agent. Accessed 28 Jun. 2025.
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