as in informant
a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing
the informer who told the police about that conspiracy has angered a lot of dangerous people
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Over the past eight decades, the CCP has constructed a vast network of millions of informers and spies whose often-unpaid work has been critical to the regime’s survival.
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Minxin Pei, Foreign Affairs, 6 Feb. 2024
These women are not just queens and princesses, but also vestal virgins and whores, traitors and patriots, saintly martyrs, savvy businesswomen, informers, poets, and rebels.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2023
The vast archive, though far from complete because many documents were destroyed or put beyond the reach of archivists, has exposed a host of prominent Romanians as Communist-era Securitate informers.
—Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
Even though some state institutions are working to track the killings of protesters in 1989, and to provide support for the families of victims, many servants of the Ceausescu regime, particularly former Securitate officers and a vast network of informers, still cast a long shadow.
—Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
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Minxin Pei, Foreign Affairs, 6 Feb. 2024
These women are not just queens and princesses, but also vestal virgins and whores, traitors and patriots, saintly martyrs, savvy businesswomen, informers, poets, and rebels.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2023
The vast archive, though far from complete because many documents were destroyed or put beyond the reach of archivists, has exposed a host of prominent Romanians as Communist-era Securitate informers.
—Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
Even though some state institutions are working to track the killings of protesters in 1989, and to provide support for the families of victims, many servants of the Ceausescu regime, particularly former Securitate officers and a vast network of informers, still cast a long shadow.
—Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
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“Informer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/informer. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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