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spy
noun as in person who secretly finds out about another's business
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agent, detective, informer, investigator, mole, operative, secret agent, secret service, undercover agent
Strong matches
emissary, lookout, observer, patrol, plant, scout, sleeper, sleuth, snoop, spotter, watcher
Weak matches
double agent, espionage agent, foreign agent, inside agent, intelligencer, plumber
verb as in secretly follow, watch another's actions
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case, eyeball, glimpse, meddle, notice, observe, peep, pry, reconnoiter, scout, search, shadow, sleuth, spot, stag, tail, trail, view, watch
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catch sight of, fish out, get a load of, keep under surveillance, look for, recon, set eyes on, stake out, take in, take note
Example Sentences
And in those years South Korea was rife with suspicion, when anti-government activists were dubbed Communist spies and arrested or killed.
The court also heard how the spy ring planned to cover the Kazakhstan Embassy in London in fake pig’s blood as part of a staged protest.
Jurors were told that the alleged spies were able to work out which flights Mr Grozev would be on, with surveillance teams booked onto the planes.
Duncan Lewis led Australia's domestic spy agency - the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation - through the early years of the first Trump administration.
Leung was sentenced last year to life in prison on spying charges.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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