Thesaurus results for AGENTS

agents

noun

plural of agent

as in instrumentalities

something used to achieve an end the whitening agent in the detergent is chlorine bleach the Church has been the traditional agent for social justice in impoverished countries

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as in representatives

a person who acts or does business for another the sports agent negotiated a record-breaking contract for the baseball player

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as in ambassadors

a person sent on a mission to represent another an undercover agent of the Crown

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as in spies

a person who tries secretly to obtain information for one country in the territory of another usually unfriendly country an agent feeding information about enemy troop movements

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Recent Examples of agents There is currently no payments network for AI agents, Hayes said. — Jenny Lee, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026 Which is to say the agents are hustling — and even trying to submit to literary magazines — to stay alive. — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2026 Enterprises may eventually maintain marketplaces of agents that are verified, tested, vetted and approved for particular departments. — Doug Shannon, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026 The promise is that these agents can autonomously act on users’ behalves, from answering emails and sending invoices to booking flights and buying clothes. — Amy O’Brien, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2026 Alina Garcia, Miami-Dade County's supervisor of elections, told reporters Monday that ICE and other law enforcement agents will not be present inside any election polling site in the county. — ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026 The Wikimedia Foundation, operator of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, is the latest organization to claim its sites were impacted by rogue OpenAI agents. — Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 6 Oct. 2026 Cseh, the archive's director, said successor governments to dictatorships rarely disclose the names of previous agents and informants, let alone records as detailed as those Hungary is preparing to release. — Arkansas Online, 30 Sep. 2026 Among the most notable was the Hugging Face incident over the summer, during which OpenAI agents gained internet access and hacked into an AI company. — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026

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Noun

Certifying a council as fair means comparing it against every possible group of voters and every slate of candidates that group can claim.

— Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2026
Then, the court could determine whether the person has the means to pay, Looney said.

— Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of means

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Attempts by The Associated Press to reach the other men or their representatives have been unsuccessful.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2026
How the system would work The initial phase of contract talks still would have union and county representatives seeking to hammer out a mutually beneficial deal, with a presumption that both sides would negotiate in good faith.

— Jon Regardie, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of representatives

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As ambassadors, the Bythewoods will give audiences a unique look into their personal and creative journeys through special programming at The New School, Urbanworld’s Innovation Summit partner.

— Brande Victorian, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026
Earlier this year, PaperAirplane expanded further with its National Radio & Media Ambassador Division, connecting theatrical campaigns with local radio personalities and media ambassadors in North America.

— Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of ambassadors

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In 2010, 11 deep-cover Russian spies were arrested across the United States, sending shockwaves around the globe.

— Leo Barraclough, Variety, 5 Oct. 2026
Last year, Ken McCallum, MI5’s director-general, said Chinese spies poseda daily national security threat, and were creating fake job adverts to try to lure British professionals into handing over information.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026

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Personal autonomous vehicles, by contrast, are a natural extension of the company’s 118 years of expertise in building vehicles for individual customers.

— Alyson Shontell, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
Once operational, the aircraft will give Stratolaunch another option for putting reusable hypersonic test vehicles into flight.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of vehicles

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Authorities estimate hundreds of thousands of protesters, including students, teachers and delegates from trade unions, took to the streets on Tuesday as protests sweep the country.

— Melissa Bell, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026
Simms will be in town pressing the flesh alongside thousands of other delegates.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of delegates

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Unlike most Western democracies in which citizens abroad can mail in a ballot, Israel doesn’t allow absentee voting; only diplomats and official envoys can vote from outside the country.

— Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2026
Iroquois envoys regularly visited colonists, both to size up their ambitious rivals and to give advice on how to survive on an American continent where Native American culture dominated.

— Scott Baldauf, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of envoys

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Jamal allegedly promised to protect the Feeding Our Future operatives against the threat of prosecution, took their money, and then turned some of them over to investigators.

— Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 5 Oct. 2026
To the continued amazement of advantage players, casino operatives can argue with apparent conviction that card counting— essentially mental arithmetic—is a form of fraud.

— Kit Chellel, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026