Informants

Word INFORMANTS
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What do we mean by informants?

One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer.

A native speaker who acts as a linguistic reference for a language being studied. The informant demonstrates native pronunciation, provides grammaticality judgments regarding linguistic well-formedness, and may also explain cultural references and other important contextual information.

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The word "informants" in example sentences

Anyone who wants to join our web of informants is welcome! ❋ Unknown (2010)

In contrast to Agee, WikiLeaks withheld the names of hundreds of informants from the nearly 400,000 Iraq war documents it released over the weekend, according to news reports. ❋ Jeff Stein (2010)

The SEC would count employees as informants from the date they report a problem to the company so that they "preserve their place in line" for an award, according to an SEC fact sheet. ❋ Jessica Holzer (2010)

The SEC would count employees as informants from the date they report a problem to the company so their award isn't delayed. ❋ Jessica Holzer (2010)

Most women described peer mockery whereby untattooed female bodies were compared to fish (echoing Earthy's informants from the 1920s), a taunt they explained in terms of either the white color of a fish's belly or the smoothness of unmarked skin, which made a woman's body slippery and harder for a man to grasp. ❋ Unknown (2005)

He called his informants "victims" and ran group therapy sessions for them in New York. ❋ By MARGALIT FOX (2011)

Counterinsurgency is a political war — and you don’t gain informants that tell you where Al Qaeda is by having leaders like George Bush and Dick Cheney that make Bin Laden look good by comparison. ❋ Unknown (2010)

HOLMES: No-knock warrants and no-name informants under fire in Atlanta -- the police chief says he is rethinking both after last week's deadly shooting of a 92-year-old woman. ❋ Unknown (2006)

“Your informants are the ones who are lying,” he huffed. ❋ Michael Jan Friedman (2002)

Commission in Durban on Tuesday refused to name informants, saying the people's lives would be endangered. ❋ Unknown (1998)

The only common denominator in these discussions seemed to be that each of the informants was a native speaker of the language in question. ❋ Norman, John, 1931- (1980)

The incomes and lives of some of our other informants were much more directly affected by the dead season; its impact on the lives of individuals and on the country as a whole is much more evident in the Neighbors volume where among our informants were a cane-cutter, an agricultural laborer, and an employee of a company store on a colonia. ❋ Gouldner, Alvin W. (1977)

My informants were the most experienced councillors, and especially the ❋ Horatio Hale (1856)

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