as in informer
a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing
the FBI is working closely with informants to find out about the subversive group
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Recent Examples of informant
He is charged with a handful of felonies and is facing up to life if found guilty of tampering or harassing a witness, victim or informant, according to the affidavit.
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Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 23 Dec. 2025
The letter asks for an accounting of how many MS-13 gang members were sent to El Salvador under the arrangement, including whether any other informants were sent back to the Central American country beyond the nine already reported.
—Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill, 23 Dec. 2025
His administration also returned key MS-13 drug gang informants to El Salvador.
—Brian Mann, NPR, 15 Dec. 2025
Around the same time, an Enquirer investigation found several cases that relied on informant testimony later fell apart.
—Erin Glynn, Cincinnati Enquirer, 10 Dec. 2025
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informer
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Frizer and Skeres were fraudsters, and the sinister Poley was an informer, crucial to the exposure of the Babington Plot.—
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Option 2: If one prisoner informs while the other stays silent, the informer will go free while the silent one receives the harshest sentence.—
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“Informant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/informant. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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