informant
Example Sentences
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Prosecutors must prove Blanche’s assertion that the informant program, which began in the 1980s, was used to further extremism rather than fight it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026
Only recently has Tennessee acknowledged that it used a paid informant.
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026
Sometimes it plays out smoothly, like when he talks Roman history with informant Frank Pentangeli in “Part II,” letting him know that his family would be taken care of should he die.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026
They argued that the two men to whom he sent the messages were unlikely to carry out a murder—a federal informant with a bad back and a fellow union carpenter with no criminal history.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
Ere many minutes had elapsed, I was again on my feet, however, and again searching something—a resource, or at least an informant.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing informant
Because They Marched
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Unit 8: Vocabulary from Readings
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