as in informant
a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing
an accountant who had turned deep throat, he was the first to leak the information that the company had been cooking its books for years
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Prosecutors haven't publicly identified the informant, but details in an FBI affidavit suggest Kamara is the one who cooperated with the FBI to offer White envelopes of cash.Cuneyt Dil, Axios, 30 Oct. 2024
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China has issued a strong rebuke to the United States, accusing it of hypocrisy over espionage following recent Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) efforts to recruit Chinese informants.Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
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Given the increasingly absurd pretexts the state is using for criminal prosecution and the resounding success of informers of all stripes, the judicial crackdown will continue to worsen.Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 17 May 2024
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Standing in his way are British spies, French informers and jealous colleagues.Liza Foreman, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2024
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Over a coffee-table interrogation, with Straus sitting in, De Vido, who has light-brown hair and wears clear oval glasses, sang like a canary.Naaman Zhou, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
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If oil and gas trade is this war’s canary in the coal mine, then the expiration of Ukraine’s transit agreement with Russia this December should be viewed with alarm.Julian Fisher, Orange County Register, 8 Oct. 2024
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“Deep throat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deep%20throat. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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