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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But as reporters from across the nation showed up to cover Wednesday's rally and meet, Sarah was no longer feeling quite so isolated.

— Matt Calkins OutKick, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2026
Rubio told reporters Wednesday that decisions regarding Ukraine’s access to Starlink were up to its parent company SpaceX and Musk, not the White House.

— Reuters, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of reporters

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The National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control section, which prosecutes spies, is assisting the DOJ in the case.

— Benjamin Guggenheim, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026
By the time the Dutch spies had visibility into the phone, the account had received hundreds of millions of dollars from a bank in Azerbaijan.

— Matthew Cole, Vanity Fair, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of spies

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The Administration’s tactics have reminded her of recent malicious acts in France tied to Russian operatives, such as the defacing of a Holocaust memorial with bloody handprints and the planting of a pig’s head outside a mosque.

— Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
The vote had faced concerns of possible foreign interference after Canadian newspaper the Globe and Mail reported Republican operatives had assisted top separatist leaders with their independence bid.

— Max Saltman, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026

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Illustration by Jeffrey Smith On June 4, 1952, Ernest Hemingway stood at his typewriter at Finca Vigía, his home outside Havana, and wrote to one of his favorite correspondents, Harvey Breit, of the Times Book Review.

— Stephen Bates, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2026
Trevor Noah took over the role before leaving in 2022, and anchoring duties were divvied up between a rotating cast of correspondents for just under a year in 2023.

— Jaeden Pinder, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of correspondents

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In December 2024, FBI agents and local police arrested the men during pre-dawn raids on their homes in Miami Beach and their parents’ home in Bal Harbour.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2026
With the sun low in the sky, protesters took to the streets of Woodland on Tuesday to demand action against federal immigration agents.

— Hector Amezcua, Sacbee.com, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of agents

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Bloomberg | Getty Images Analysts had expected a rally in Brazilian assets before Sunday's election results, with Bolsonaro holding a narrow lead earlier this month.

— Anniek Bao, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2026
Why ships and airfields need new defenses China’s research focuses on defending valuable assets.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 25 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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