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a person who tries secretly to obtain information for one country in the territory of another usually unfriendly country as the nation's top intelligencer, the director of the CIA should have been more skeptical of the information he was being fed

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Noun
  • There were reporters and photographers all around, clamoring for interviews and pictures.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Gloria Casas is a freelance reporter for The Courier-News.
    Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The duo plays Emily and Matt, a married pair of ex-CIA spies forced out of retirement and back into the world of espionage after their secret identities are revealed.
    Jacqueline Weiss, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Cianfrance supplies a real jerk of a manager in Peter Dinklage’s Mitch, on whom Jeffrey spies by setting up baby monitors in the back office.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Lynsey, in the film, veteran war correspondent Dexter Filkins says that he gets asked all of the time if war correspondents, like you, are addicted to the adrenaline that being in a war zone creates.
    Addie Morfoot, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Dinah Voyles Pulver, a national correspondent for USA TODAY, has written about hurricanes, tornadoes and violent weather for more than 30 years.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • These cutting agents, including potent synthetic opioids and animal tranquilizers, increase the risk of fatal overdoses.
    David Ferrara, The Enquirer, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The agent also proposes that player power — and agent power — is another leading factor.
    Oliver Kay, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Daniels, for his part, visited papers like The Dallas Morning News and spoke with journalists, while Koman leaned on his lifelong fascination with journalism’s luminaries like Gay Talese and Ben Bradlee.
    Andy Meek, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The report also detailed how its AI capabilities were being misused by North Korean operatives who used it to obtain remote jobs at tech companies.
    Steve Weisman, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • In September 2024, Israel blew up the group’s pagers, causing gruesome injuries as the devices detonated in Hezbollah operatives’ pockets.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
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“Intelligencer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intelligencer. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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