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  1. informants

    An informant (also called an informer or, as a slang term, a “snitch”) is a person who provides privileged information about a person or organization to an agency. The term is usually used within the law-enforcement world, where informants are officially known as confidential human sources (CHS), or criminal informants (CI). It can also refer pejoratively to someone who supplies information without the consent of the involved parties. The term is commonly used in politics, industry, entertainment, and academia.In the United States, a confidential informant or "CI" is "any individual who provides useful and credible information to a law enforcement agency regarding felonious criminal activities and from whom the agency expects or intends to obtain additional useful and credible information regarding such activities in the future".

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Informants in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Informants in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Informants in a Sentence

  1. Steve Mercer:

    People who submit DNA for ancestors testing are unwittingly becoming genetic informants on their innocent family.

  2. Alex Spiro:

    It's informants that they have charged with fraud, it's informants that... are alcoholics, that are proven liars. That's their evidence.

  3. Peter King:

    [The police] are the ones who have the informants. They have the sources. They have people on the ground, we can't be shutting down investigations.

  4. Chris Painter:

    They say there's no honor among thieves. You would still get, I think, good leads, if [ informants ] can do State Department anonymously and they get paid anonymously, even if they're quasi state-sponsored, they might just do State Department. Because money's still king.

  5. Erez Liebermann:

    It is inconceivable that The US government has not used cryptocurrency to paid undercover informants or sources.

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