Example Sentences

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He is alleged to have spied on US-based Chinese democracy activists and dissidents.

From BBC • Aug. 21, 2024

The New York Times, which first reported the arrest, identified Ethiopia as the country for which Lemma is alleged to have spied.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2023

Researchers have spied the first radiation belt outside the Solar System.

From Science Magazine • May 17, 2023

Researchers have spied this sort of structure before—in WR 104 and Apep, both of which are multiple star systems with a Wolf-Rayet component.

From Scientific American • Oct. 25, 2022

Washington left to our imagination exactly how Boudinot must have spied on prisoners.

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen