as in informant
a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing
an accountant who had turned deep throat, he was the first to leak the information that the company had been cooking its books for years
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Rios’ attorneys contend that the case had gone cold when Guevara, who at the time was a gang crimes specialist, not a homicide detective, inserted himself into the investigation by claiming two confidential informants had fingered Rios as the gunman.—
Jason Meisner,
Chicago Tribune,
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An informant with Talanoa Law and Justice told researchers that drugs impact the areas of the brain that control thinking and emotions.—
Ashley J. DiMella,
FOXNews.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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And so every regime invests in having student informers.—
Anne Applebaum,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2026
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Security services also rely on informers to tell them who might be using Starlink, and search internet and social media traffic for signs it has been used.—
David Rising,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Jan. 2026
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By crunching data from millions of monthly payroll records for workers in jobs with exposure to generative AI, the authors concluded that workers ages 22 to 25—the canaries—have seen about a 13 percent decline in employment since late 2022.—
Josh Tyrangiel,
The Atlantic,
10 Feb. 2026
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There are no canaries on the Canary Islands.—
Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 Jan. 2026
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Once an unconscious stool pigeon, always an unconscious stool pigeon.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
12 Nov. 2025
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Russo turned stool pigeon within a month of his November 2017 arrest for selling a kilo of cocaine to an undercover agent.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Deep throat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deep%20throat. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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