Thesaurus results for INTELLIGENCERS

intelligencers

noun

plural of intelligencer

as in reporters

a person employed by a newspaper, magazine, or radio or television station to gather, write, or report news the student journalist asked questions as probing as those of a seasoned intelligencer

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a person who tries secretly to obtain information for one country in the territory of another usually unfriendly country as the nation's top intelligencer, the director of the CIA should have been more skeptical of the information he was being fed

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The president was asked by reporters at the White House whether he had been briefed about any links between the pilot behind the attack and Tehran.

— DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFF FROM WIRE REPORTS, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2026
In interviews with over two dozen residents of the Texas borderland, NYT reporters gave voice to personal accounts of the frustrations that many Latinos are feeling in the country.

— Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of reporters

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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

Definition of spies

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Last week, a regional television station interrupted a live broadcast for about 20 minutes after journalists evacuated to a shelter during an air raid warning.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
Separate flights were arranged, with Machado traveling separately from some members of the group and the journalists in an effort to make her movements less conspicuous.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of journalists

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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

Definition of operatives

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Also pushed out were correspondents Scott Pelley, Cecilia Vega and Sharyn Alfonsi.

— Brian Steinberg, Variety, 6 Oct. 2026
Heinrich is among the correspondents at Fox News — which this week will mark 30 years on the air — whose reporting doesn’t adhere to the leanings of its opinion hosts and commentators.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026

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The new ParaBros is inheriting several lucrative IP assets from the Burbank lot shepherded by De Luca and Abdy — Ocean’s Eleven, Gremlins, Gladys, Minecraft 2 and more going forward, 38 features overall, dated into 2029.

— Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 4 Oct. 2026
Inequality began accelerating again in the late seventies, and the amount of assets in the hands of the top one per cent increased dramatically.

— Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of assets

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So and his lead co-stars Choi Dae-hoon and Yoon Kyung-ho formed the perfect trio of lethal secret agents masquerading as bumbling middle-aged dads, displaying remarkable chemistry.

— Regina Kim, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
It's been nearly a decade since The Night Manager ensnared viewers in its sticky web of arms dealers, secret agents, and dodgy bureaucrats.

— Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Jan. 2026

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