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cooperator

[koh-ahp-uh-rayt-er] / koʊˈɑp əˌreɪt ər /






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They’ve got one cooperator, but you can cross-examine the cooperator, who’s cooperating in hopes of a more lenient sentence.

From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2026

The cooperator said they were “prepared with peanut butter” when they encountered a small chihuahua, Del Rio testified.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2025

He pleaded guilty and became a government cooperator — and, all that time, his wife waited for him in Pakistan.

From New York Times ● May 9, 2024

"He is not a viable cooperator for the Fulton County D.A.,"

From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2024

Auxiliary -- N. auxiliary; recruit; assistant; adjuvant, adjutant; ayudante†, coaid†; adjunct; help, helper, help mate, helping hand; midwife; colleague, partner, mate, confrere, cooperator; coadjutor, coadjutrix†; collaborator. ally; friend &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

“But in my experience, cooperators in these types of cases are especially valuable, and the key is to then corroborate them with other witnesses who tell the same story or documentary evidence.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2026

Some models were designed to create a vortex, which, through its shear pattern, localized cooperators within a ring while pushing cheaters to the outer rim of the environment -- essentially localizing cooperation.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 6, 2024

Former FBI assistant director Frank Figliuzzi suggested that "there are multiple cooperators" in the documents case because the indictment references two people's conversations.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2023

Throughout that year, Agent Miller and her team were also trying to recruit new cooperators.

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2023

It only needs an adequate motive to make them cooperators with the Bureau instead of evaders of the law.

From Races and Immigrants in America by John R. (John Rogers) Commons




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