sleeper cell
Americannoun
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sleeper cells
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Some people were crazy about how he had a beard and said that he was in a sleeper cell and all this stuff.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
"Were you writing a book? / Were you a sleeper cell spy? / In 50 years will all this be declassified / And you'll confess why you did it?"
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2024
Natasha, Yelena, and their “parents” were sent to Ohio to be Russian sleeper cell agents and send info back to their home country.
From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2021
Her group, the Stonehenge Alliance, which had become something of a sleeper cell, snapped back into action, writing to ministers even before the new scheme was announced by David Cameron in December 2014.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2019
You're a --" I fished in my memory for vocabulary words culled from spy thrillers -- "you're a sleeper cell.
From Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
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