double agent

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Recent Examples of double agent As the film opens, George is given a list of five key suspects all with similar security clearance who might be acting as a double agent. Pete Hammond, Deadline, 6 Mar. 2025 Nicholson’s Sinatra, meanwhile, was left incapacitated in a hospital bed after being shot by Jane (Nicole Brydon Bloom), the double agent who also murdered Billy (Jon Beavers). Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Mar. 2025 Richardson will only give the go order if Martian agrees to serve as a double agent. Ben Travers, IndieWire, 24 Jan. 2025 In the nail-biting season 2 finale of The Night Agent, Gabriel Basso's rookie operative is tasked with going even further undercover to work as a double agent. Ashley Boucher, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for double agent
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Noun
  • Luxury log cabins sleep four or eight and offer full kitchens, dining and living areas, heated floors, A/C, flat-screen TVs with DirecTV, and queen-size sleeper sofas.
    Jim Dobson, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Incorporate Lighting Mounting a sconce in each berth lets every sleeper control their own reading light.
    Laura Fenton, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • They are barred from using certain language during debates including git, guttersnipe, swine and stool pigeon.
    Max Colchester, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2019
Noun
  • During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • This wasn’t difficult to do, and the U.S. reacted with defensive measures, deploying FBI counterspies throughout the hemisphere.
    Nicholas Reynolds, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2018

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