as in gossiper
a person who habitually reveals personal or sensational facts about others
an ugly rumor about one of our staffers was circulating, and, as usual, the chief circulator was the in-house busybody
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Noun
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The actual murder sounds much more like a spontaneous crime of passion than the work of a veteran hitman exacting punishment on a guy suspected of being an FBI informant.—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
6 Mar. 2025 -
Gledhill allegedly told the informant he was buried somewhere north of their Cottonwood Heights home, per the detention hearing.—
Toria Sheffield,
People.com,
2 Mar. 2025
Noun
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This is gossip as intimacy’s glue—the best, richest kind.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
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Their presence in the mountain town flew under the radar until earlier this week, when gossip account DeuxMoi shared a video showing the couple leaving the city’s Firewood restaurant the week prior.—
Jami Ganz,
New York Daily News,
15 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The Ukrainian soldiers began to see Russian civilians as a hindrance — or worse, as potential informers who could give away their positions.—
Ekaterina Bodyagina Nanna Heitmann,
New York Times,
12 Feb. 2025
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The arrests were part of wide-ranging Establishment attacks on the new generation of pop stars in Britain at the time, done through connivance with informers and a hostile conservative media.—
Bill Wyman,
Vulture,
30 Jan. 2025
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“Circulator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/circulator. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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