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as in gossiper
a person who habitually reveals personal or sensational facts about others statehouse talebearers had long spread stories about the governor's extramarital affairs

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as in informant
a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing the teacher told him not to be such a talebearer, as she was quite capable of detecting student misbehavior on her own

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Noun
  • Prosecutors say some of that information, including details on informants and sensitive investigations, was included in his unpublished manuscript.
    Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Before a warrant is issued, an officer must attest that the request for it is not based on information from informants who have provided false information that has led to negative raids in the past, the bill states.
    Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek's network of contributors Jenna Bush Hager and her husband, Henry Hager, may be happily in love, but their son could do without their public displays of affection.
    Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Send your questions, comments and gossip to LAontheRecord@latimes.com.
    Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The Ukrainian soldiers began to see Russian civilians as a hindrance — or worse, as potential informers who could give away their positions.
    Ekaterina Bodyagina Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The arrests were part of wide-ranging Establishment attacks on the new generation of pop stars in Britain at the time, done through connivance with informers and a hostile conservative media.
    Bill Wyman, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Miami-Dade is the canary in the Florida coal mine for Democrats, where Republican strength signals much wider problems.
    Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2025
  • This almost never happened with the canaries, who removed the husk with extraordinary diligence and skill.
    Maja Mielke, JSTOR Daily, 20 Feb. 2025
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“Talebearer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/talebearer. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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