secret agent
noun
an agent of a secret service.
secret agents
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pluralof secret agent.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Some were also destroyed by Israeli secret agents on the ground, people familiar with the operation said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026
Picco represented Pérez de Cuéllar in negotiations between New Zealand and France after the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior was sunk by French secret agents in 1985.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2024
Phyllis Latour, the last of the 39 female secret agents who served in Sir Winston Churchill's "secret army" in France, has died aged 102.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2023
They believed they were secret agents or that aliens were coming to get them.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 15, 2023
Many former secret agents, including Gunter Guillaume, testified against him, helping expose Wolf's massive, decades-long effort to spy on the West—which reportedly involved more than 4,000 spies in West Germany alone.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
