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- noun Plural form of
leaker .
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Examples
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You'll recall, on Monday, I mentioned positioning of a number of additional forces around the objective area for the purpose of being able to identify what we call leakers, or people who would try to escape.
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Several patriotic truth tellers (aka leakers) told The Washington Post of the NIE's main judgments.
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The ACLU has taken the position (and I am sure it will soon be echoed around the left wng of the blogosphere) that the leakers are heroes and whistleblowers.
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You can be damn sure that those "leakers" or "whistle-blowers" wanted protection.
Rod Lurie: "Nothing But the Truth" About the Federal Shield Law 2009
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Jefferson was also one of the first "leakers" in the federal government, covertly slipping compromising state documents to journalist Philip Freneau, who was a chief correspondent for the Gazette.
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In this, more likely, situation, the terminology changes: The sources are no longer "leakers" but "whistleblowers."
Geoffrey R. Stone: Bush's NSA Surveillance Program: What Happens Now? 2008
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Having vilified their own internal critics as "leakers," ACLU leaders risk incurring charges of hypocrisy if they now try to defend leaks and publication of leaked information about the Bush administration's arguably illegal activities.
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At that time, there were a number of beautiful condos on the Inner Harbor of Victoria that were termed, "leakers".
How Far Will The Strong Canadian Dollar Go in Mexico Today? 2008
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It is ironic that the ACLU is decrying and seeking to hunt out and discipline "leakers," directors who they assail as "enemies within."
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They'll insist that the "leakers" were Democrats who must have known something and were sitting on the information to use as an October surprise.
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