spymaster

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Recent Examples of spymaster And in the fall of 2022, U.S. and Russian spymasters met in Turkey to address concerns that Moscow could use nuclear weapons in the war. Landon Mion, Fox News, 18 Feb. 2025 Relying on his newfound fame, the spymaster published Yardleygrams, a collection of cryptologic puzzles designed to teach readers how to become amateur cryptologists. Peter Zablocki, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Feb. 2025 Not until 2000, when a video showing the spymaster bribing a congressman was leaked by Montesinos' secretary and former mistress and broadcast. Cynthia McClintock, Foreign Affairs, 5 Feb. 2013 But in Burns—a 33-year veteran of the Foreign Service, only the second career diplomat to become deputy secretary of state, a former ambassador to Russia and Jordan—Biden got a spymaster with an unusual set of skills. Shane Harris, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for spymaster
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Noun
  • The goal is to find a new home for the franchise and make the superspy a more regular presence onscreen.
    Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Connery’s second outing as the superspy is more grounded than both its predecessor and the sequels to come, teaming Bond up with a female Russian agent (Italian actress Daniela Bianchi, overdubbed by Barbara Jefford) to outwit the evil SPECTRE in Turkey.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The Ukrainian soldiers began to see Russian civilians as a hindrance — or worse, as potential informers who could give away their positions.
    Ekaterina Bodyagina Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The arrests were part of wide-ranging Establishment attacks on the new generation of pop stars in Britain at the time, done through connivance with informers and a hostile conservative media.
    Bill Wyman, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
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
Noun
  • The astrophysicist, who keeps close tabs on orbital traffic, said that on the day of the interview (April 4), at least three objects had returned from space — two of SpaceX's Starlink broadband satellites and a 43-year-old Russian spy satellite called Kosmos 1340.
    Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • What to know about the complex, long-simmering civil war Dearlove served as Britain's top spy between 1999 and 2004, when Tony Blair was prime minister.
    Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2025

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“Spymaster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spymaster. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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