spy
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Before 2020, local tax collectors had to sit at airports to spy on tail numbers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
I can add this thesis that being brown in the West is like being in a spy thriller.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
But details only came out two years later when the country's former spy chief, Arthur Fraser, highlighted the alleged theft in an explosive dossier that he sent to the police.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
Last year, I congratulated “60 Minutes” for, without a hint of BS about UFOs and visiting aliens, dealing forthrightly with antagonistic foreign powers operating drones in the U.S. to spy on U.S. military sites.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
In the preceding weeks, Brooklyn had traveled by transatlantic jet, high-speed train, and unmarked spy plane.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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