whistleblowers

noun

variants or whistle-blowers
plural of whistleblower
as in informants
a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing there are laws to protect whistle-blowers who reveal corporate malfeasance

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Recent Examples of whistleblowers Other bills would pay whistleblowers a share of recovered fines and let New Yorkers sue AI companies for foreseeable harms caused by jailbroken tools. — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026 The visit comes a week after Democrats on the House of Representatives’ Oversight Committee published images and allegations from whistleblowers about ICE facilities in Miramar and Orlando. — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2026 Public interest in the topic has surged in the wake of a succession of media reports, lawmakers and whistleblowers making claims about unidentified anomalous phenomena. — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2026 There, the Commission is expected to vote to extend the independent third-party audit of Veolia − prompted by the allegations by Common Ground and whistleblowers − through the end of October, increasing the cost to $200,000. — Mary Spicuzza, jsonline.com, 11 Sep. 2026 David Kligerman, the official's lawyer at Whistleblower Aid, a nonprofit that provides legal support to whistleblowers, said the USPS process would place several new requirements between states and voters. — Steve Inskeep, NPR, 2 Sep. 2026 Jeremy Strong takes over from Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg, with Jeremy Allen White as reporter Jeff Horwitz and Mikey Madison as Frances Haugen, one of the most significant whistleblowers of the digital age. — Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026 The entire network could have been dismantled six months earlier, according to a former DEA supervisor who worked on the case and is now among three whistleblowers sounding the alarm about the longstanding practice. — Joshua Goodman, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026 What’s more, the DOJ has encouraged whistleblowers to file DEI lawsuits on the government’s behalf and potentially receive a portion of the windfall. — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for whistleblowers
  1. informants
  2. informers
  3. canaries
Noun
  • Many informants The issue of intelligence connections has shadowed the investigation ever since Moïse was found shot to death in his second-floor bedroom, and his wife, Martine, was seriously injured.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 10 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, Arkansas Online, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of informants
Noun
  • One of State Security’s main goals, as well as a central source of its strength, is turning civilians into informers.
    — Abraham Jiménez Enoa, The Dial, 19 May 2026
  • And so every regime invests in having student informers.
    — Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026
Definition of informers
Noun
  • Astronauts bring them on journeys to keep an eye on whether or not the water filtration systems are working, much the way miners used to take canaries down to the coal mines to check for poisonous gas leaks.
    — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026
  • She’s made room for dozens of pets over the years, ranging from fluffy Chow Chows and Frenchies (her favorite breeds) to canaries, chinchillas, and beautifully fluffy cats.
    — Wendy Rose Gould, Martha Stewart, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of canaries

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“Whistleblowers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whistleblowers. Accessed 11 Oct. 2026.

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