- present participle of spy.
spying
Example Sentences
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Since then the club has been the subject of an investigation by the FA, looking into who participated in the spying and assessing the culpability of those who knew it was happening.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 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
As several of the U.S. contractors worked on Xiao’s project, they realized they were actually spying on Americans, former employees said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
He ended up both spying on G42 and also helping the U.A.E. clean up the troubling issues he discovered, according to accounts of his activities provided to The Wall Street Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
The information she handed over to the FBI included dozens of names of other Americans spying for the USSR, including people that the agency had been tracking for years.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
