informants

Example Sentences

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What seems more likely is what the Southern Poverty Law Center has said, which is, “We pay informants to do this.”

From Slate • May 4, 2026

And so you bet we paid these informants who shared information with us, and guess what we did with it?

From Slate • May 4, 2026

“The Department of Justice also knows that these confidential informants helped law enforcement put violent extremists in jail.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Using informants to warn about threats of violence may be defensible.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

Others had a kernel of truth, misunderstood or exaggerated by the explorers or their informants.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan