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Recent Examples of tattletale Upsides And Downsides Are At Stake Generative AI can readily be shaped as a tattletale or snitch by an AI maker. Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025 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, 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 One errant tweet, one mistimed joke, one honest opinion overheard by an oversensitive busybody with the shrunken soul of a schoolyard tattletale, and a person’s job can be lost and his reputation destroyed. James E. Person Jr., National Review, 17 Sep. 2020 Deciding to become a whistleblower requires some hefty thinking, trying to balance a personal sense of ethical codes versus the potential for being known as an informer or tattletale. Lance Eliot, Forbes, 23 June 2021 The odds are that once self-driving cars become prevalent, the general public will wise up that self-driving cars have this intrinsic capability of being a tattletale. Lance Eliot, Forbes, 12 June 2021 The boy was branded as a tattletale for reporting what had happened to him and became the target of fierce bullying at school. Emma Brown, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2021 Kaila White, 29, also of Phoenix, was a good student and a tattletale while growing up. Michelle Rogers, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tattletale
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
  • The actual murder sounds much more like a spontaneous crime of passion than the work of a veteran hitman exacting punishment on a guy suspected of being an FBI informant.
    Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Gledhill allegedly told the informant he was buried somewhere north of their Cottonwood Heights home, per the detention hearing.
    Toria Sheffield, People.com, 2 Mar. 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
Noun
  • Year after year, SELF’s Sneaker Awards crown the best new pairs across every category, from lifestyle staples to gym rat favorites to pickleball trainers and everything in between.
    Paige Levinson, SELF, 17 Mar. 2025
  • In September 2024, the California legislature passed the Poison-Free Wildlife Act, which bans some rat poisons.
    Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Tattling to the Bachelor doesn’t always go well for the tattler.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Mortimer Zuckerman, the owner, hired him to replace a British editor who had turned it from a brash, tough-guy paper into a tattler of celebrity gossip and supermarket tabloid stunts.
    Robert D. McFadden, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2020

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