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Definitioner
Substantiv
- A person who secretly watches and examines the actions of other individuals or organizations and gathers information on them (usually to gain an advantage).
Verb
- (intransitive) To act as a spy.
- (transitive) To spot; to catch sight of.
- (intransitive) To search narrowly; to scrutinize.
- (transitive) To explore; to view; inspect and examine secretly, as a country.
Exempel
- Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
- During the Cold War, Russia and America would each spy on each other for recon.
- I think I can spy that hot guy coming over here.
- One in reading, skipped over all sentences where he spied a note of admiration.
- Look about with your eyes; spy what things are to be reformed in the church of England.
- It is my nature's plague / To spy into abuses.
- Moses sent to spy Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof.
- He was hung as a spy.
- He was spying on me!
- He was hung for spying.
- I spy a ship in yonder distance.
- Out of the right-hand window I spy a surreal sight.
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