"spy" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- There were supposed to be no electronic spies operating within, but he never took that on faith.
- Before he left England he had been sent on a special course for spies operating in enemy hands.
- A number of suspected spies operating in or near Kristiania were investigated.
- I said, "You act pretty big for a lousy spy, or counterspy, operating in a foreign country, probably without permission."
- There are spies operating everywhere, and we know who most of them are.
- These men happened to be the eight top-notchers of all foreign spies operating in the United States.
- The United States has fewer than 5,000 spies operating around the world, for example, but 30,000 eavesdroppers.
- A legal resident spy operates in a foreign country under official cover (e.g. from his country's embassy).
- American spies, the Swiss argue, operated freely from here.
- For the most part, spies operating out of embassies gather little intelligence themselves and their identities tend to be known by the opposition.
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