notifier

noun

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as in informer

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  1. informer
  2. informant
  3. snitch
  4. tattletale
  5. canary
Noun
  • 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
Definition of informer
Noun
  • This information was passed off to the DEA from an informant working for the airline who was being paid whenever agents seized cash based on their tips.
    Andrew Wimer, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
  • But just as Tomás acclimates to his new life, he is asked by his former boss (and then threatened by state police forces) to essentially become an informant.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of informant
Noun
  • There is no distinct timeline for when, or if, legislation for a ‘snitch law’ as recommended by the public inquiry will be introduced to Swedish parliament.
    Frey Lindsay, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Baugh’s boyfriend, whom Wiggins allegedly considered a snitch, was also shot but survived.
    Steve Karnowski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2024
Definition of snitch
Noun
  • The two of them, as though after a party, would have stood at the sink cleaning dishes and wondering which among the attendees was the traitor, the tattletale.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 26 July 2023
  • We’re basically guaranteed to see that thing where one person tells Zach that another person is there for the wrong reasons, but then the tattletale winds up consumed by their own vendetta and self-sabotages.
    Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2023
Definition of tattletale
Noun
  • In a lot of ways, Yastrzemski is a canary in the coal mine.
    Grant Brisbee, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024
  • The songbirds, like canaries and starlings and so forth.
    Janna Levin, Quanta Magazine, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of canary
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