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Noun
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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 -
Standing in his way are British spies, French informers and jealous colleagues.—
Liza Foreman,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Apr. 2024
Noun
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Where Season 1 thrived on discovery — not only the grand revelation of each new game, including their rules and customs, but also a sleeper hit that caught on by word of mouth rather than pre-release hype — Season 2 survives by knowing there’s less to discover.—
Tony Maglio,
IndieWire,
16 Jan. 2025
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Gracey’s most notable credit, the 2018 P.T. Barnum musical biopic The Greatest Showman, was dead on box-office arrival but slowly and gradually built up steam to become a sleeper hit.—
Chris Lee,
Vulture,
16 Jan. 2025
Noun
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During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Sep. 2019
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This wasn’t difficult to do, and the U.S. reacted with defensive measures, deploying FBI counterspies throughout the hemisphere.—
Nicholas Reynolds,
WSJ,
24 Oct. 2018
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“Infiltrator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infiltrator. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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