rumormongers

Definition of rumormongersnext
plural of rumormonger

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for rumormongers
Noun
  • Jessica Simpson has gotten used to gossipers gossiping about her private life.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
Noun
  • Local gossips claimed that Chin Ming Tai paid Moy Sing a bride price of $20,000, an astronomical sum for the time.
    Charlotte Brooks, Big Think, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The gossips leak letters indicating the family’s ruthlessness.
    Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Shiwa Hassanpour, an activist with the human rights monitor Hengaw Organization, based in Iraq’s Kurdish region, said people have been shot for approaching the border, because Iranian forces suspect them of being spies or informants.
    ABC News, ABC News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The Weathermen and Panthers held meetings together and exchanged intel about government surveillance and police informants.
    Zayd Ayers Dohrn, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The viral talkers have become the measure and the expression of the public’s outrage, mediated through the algorithms of social media.
    Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2026
  • What is going on with these crazy talkers and podcasters?
    David Frum, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • And so every regime invests in having student informers.
    Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • The men who once styled themselves renegades increasingly resembled every other hyper-online young guy—gaming, memeing, trading.
    Clara Molot, Vanity Fair, 17 Mar. 2026
  • But in order to remain a meaningful platform for creative renegades, the festival needs to also take risks.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Drawing at least in part on information from Chalker’s defectors, the Pentagon constructed life-size underground facsimiles of Iranian nuclear facilities where the scientists had worked, attempting to duplicate even the thickness of the walls.
    David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Parties have mostly voted in blocks on major issues in recent years, with small numbers of defectors increasingly rare.
    Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 27 Mar. 2026
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“Rumormongers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rumormongers. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.

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