as in informant
a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing
the prison inmate swore that he'd get revenge if he ever found out who the snitcher was
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Late last month, the Justice Department revealed that the cartel hired hacker who was able to infiltrate phone data and Mexico City's surveillance cameras to help track and kill FBI informants.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
16 July 2025 -
Then, in 1984, an informant revealed that a contract had been taken out on the life of a blond woman.—
Longreads,
Longreads,
8 July 2025
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Over the past eight decades, the CCP has constructed a vast network of millions of informers and spies whose often unpaid work has been critical to the regime’s survival.—
Minxin Pei,
Foreign Affairs,
6 Feb. 2024
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The Nazis set up secret squads in the camps to conduct beatings and killings of prisoners thought to be too friendly with U.S. officials or were accused of being informers.—
Peter Lucas,
Boston Herald,
10 July 2025
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But as Malik Rahim puts it, New Orleans was just the canary in the American coal mine.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
22 July 2025
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But the small-cap Russell 2000, the canary in the coal mine, and the old economy industrials, the DJIA, appear to be singing from a different hymn book.—
Robert Barone,
Forbes.com,
21 July 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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They are barred from using certain language during debates including git, guttersnipe, swine and stool pigeon.—
Max Colchester,
WSJ,
3 Jan. 2019
Noun
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The dye was linked to thyroid cancer risks in rats as well as behavioral issues in children such as hyperactivity.—
Omer Awan,
Forbes.com,
13 July 2025
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Fulton County was reported to have 318 rodents for every 1,000 homes, while Susquehanna County was found to have 301 mice and rats per 1,000 housing units.—
Soo Kim,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 July 2025
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Regional politics reporter Erin Glynn can be reached at eglynn@enquirer.com, @ee_glynn on X or @eringlynn on Bluesky.—
Erin Glynn,
The Enquirer,
29 July 2025
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These figures include single-family homes, condominiums and townhomes. Reach growth and development reporter Matthew Glowicki at mglowicki@courier-journal.com or 502-582-4000.—
Matthew Glowicki,
The Courier-Journal,
29 July 2025
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“Snitcher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snitcher. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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