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[spahy] / spaɪ /




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Chowdhury's defence barrister told jurors he had not known he was dealing with an escaped prisoner, describing Khalife as a spy who "knows how to deceive".

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

“You know how in the spy thriller or the heist movie, you’re introduced to the crew at the beginning,” Obama wrote.

From Slate Jul. 13, 2026

He and his wife have installed German-made saunas inside their residences, South Korea’s spy agency said in 2015.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

The other contenders for best drama include Keri Russell's political soap opera "The Diplomat," spy series "Slow Horses" and "Game of Thrones" prequel "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms."

From Barron's Jul. 8, 2026

When I arrived at my usual spot to spy on the Americans, suspicious activity was going on.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman

But one can argue that Adjani couldn’t have gotten there without the slightly milquetoast banality of her character’s husband, played by Neill as one of the least exciting on-screen spies of the 1980s.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

It also built up a network of spies across the developing world to foster revolution.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 5, 2026

The Times quotes officials justifying the order by saying it would reduce duplication of effort; our own spies wouldn’t bother recruiting someone if they knew he or she was already an agent.

From Slate Jul. 1, 2026

In 1978, Scappaticci, who died in 2023, was put on a new IRA security unit specifically tasked with flushing out spies within its ranks.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2026

If the Nazis ever learned how good she was at code breaking, it would hamper her efforts to bring their spies down.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Frank Bisignano directed staff to use software to snoop in email of rivals and surveil work of employees; Bisignano, who also heads Social Security, denied he ever spied on co-workers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

The man who runs the IRS spied on colleagues while working at JPMorgan.

From MarketWatch Jul. 21, 2026

At the bank, people familiar with the matter said, he spied on fellow executives—using his authority over the security department and position to access sensitive information and internal communications without an apparent business justification.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

Most intriguing: A Krispy Kreme truck was spied pulling up to the arena.

From Salon Jul. 2, 2026

Cliffs rose eighty feet high on either side of the cove, but at the southwest corner they spied a rocky beach where they could haul out.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

He was later sentenced to 14 years and three months for spying for Iran.

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

In more recent cases, State Department intelligence analyst Walter Kendall Myers and former US ambassador to Bolivia Victor Manuel Rocha pled guilty in separate cases to spying for the communist country.

From Barron's Jul. 20, 2026

She rejected China’s spying allegations against Chen and said he never held a U.S. government security clearance.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

Khalife was found guilty of spying but cleared of carrying out a bomb hoax at the Army barracks where he had been based as a soldier.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

Not answering the phone but hearing what people on the other end were saying was a little bit like spying.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg




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