undercover

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noun

as in spy
a person who tries secretly to obtain information for one country in the territory of another usually unfriendly country within the city was a well-organized fifth column, and these undercovers would make themselves known as soon as the invading forces breached the city limits

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undercover

3 of 3

adverb

Examples of undercover in a Sentence

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Adjective
Yadav and Gupta arranged to deliver $15,000 to the undercover source as advance payment for the assassination. Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2024 Prosecutors also allege that the undercover officer was instructed not to carry out the killing around the time of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state visit to Washington last year. Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2024
Noun
Ideally, sufficient background has been done on the suspect and there is a surveillance plan in place so that other deputies besides the undercovers are monitoring the location where the sting occurs. Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023 The hook for his inexcusably overlong gangster picture sends an informant undercover into the ranks of his brother’s crew of soccer hooligans to snitch him free of drug-dealing charges. Charles Bramesco, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2022 See all Example Sentences for undercover 

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“Undercover.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undercover. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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