spy
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"My hair, my makeup, my shoes, my jewellery, my purse, my gloves, everything. And just from creating that exterior for me, he gave me the sense of a spy lady."
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
This followed the conviction in 2016 of a junior BND worker who was sentenced by a Munich court to eight years in prison for selling information to the U.S. and offering to spy for Russia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
South Korea's spy agency estimated last year that around 2,000 North Korean troops had been killed in the war, while a more recent assessment put the number killed or wounded at around 6,000.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
The security talks also come in a week when questions have been raised about Germany's reliability as an intelligence partner, following the bombshell arrest of a former spy chief on suspicion of espionage.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
They would be looking for the spy in their midst.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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According to Reuters, some of the data contains details about officials' job assignments, including sensitive work against Chinese spies, Russian intelligence and drug cartels.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
And while that last claim is somewhat breathless and overblown, the story told by Mr. Kerbaj teems with spies and spy catchers who could have slithered off the pages of John le Carré.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Lyukshin was trained in "information warfare" by senior Russian spies and his details matched those of EL.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
There unfolds a somewhat Wodehousian investigation involving undercover spies and scheming holdovers from Oswald Mosley’s disgraced fascist party.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Nazi spies had been captured on American soil in 1938, and people were worried that more spies were lurking undercover now that World War II had started in Europe.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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Frank Bisignano spied on colleagues when he worked at JPMorgan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
The man who runs the IRS spied on colleagues while working at JPMorgan.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
Press reports have detailed how ByteDance’s China-based engineers accessed sensitive data of American users and spied on U.S. journalists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Then, somehow, through the sea of jerseys, Cormac's 14-year-old son spied somebody he recognised.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
“There’s your Nuts, Nell,” my aunt whispered for my ears alone, confirming what I’d spied in her coded messages.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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Saints were expelled from the Championship play-offs in May after admitting spying on training sessions involving Oxford United, Ipswich Town and Middlesbrough before the play-off semi-final.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
The six-week ban from all football activity would be triggered if he was found to be involved in any other spying between now and the end of next season.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
He said AfD lawmakers in Thuringia had recently requested information from his ministry about drone defenses and Russian spying activities using a procedure that forces the government to respond.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Berlin expelled a Russian diplomat in January after arresting a woman suspected of spying for Moscow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Sometimes I thought Georgie was following me, spying on me from a hiding place in the woods, but he didn’t give himself away.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
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