Examples
“A half-century of spooks is often so untethered from reason, the subject cries out for the novelist as much as the historian, as even some agents admitted.”
The Guardian: MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service, 1909-1949 by Keith Jeffery
“In The Manuscript, an enormous cast of characters comprising many sysadmins, many gun-freaks, several combat veterans, spooks from a number of agencies, named and unnamed, ten zillion cops, a group of murderous avenging Taoists, and Sir Richard Francis Burton and a group of Andean holy men who have discovered the secret of the universe.”
“The orphidnetters are haunted by spooks from a parallel dimension, who seek to prevent them from using the smarts of the orphidnet to develop interdimensional travel.”
“Do spooks from the Russian Mob sit at cageside just in case you try to win?”
“If any one is interested in Richard Armitage he is in the BBC series Robin Hood (he's a Baddie) and a TV series called the spooks but not the early series.”
“These crewmembers, dubbed spooks, held top-secret clearances and bunked together in the rear of the ship.”
“One of the spooks is her own father, the other her first husband.”
“I had half a notion that the word "spook" would draw him out, for I have noticed that ghosts do not like to be called spooks any more than negroes like to be called "niggers.”
“The climate change negotiations have now entered a phase where a team of tame "spooks" is needed by anybody trying to make sense of the myriad messages emerging from the hectic schedule of pre-Copenhagen meetings.”
Nick Mabey: Sorting Blinks From Winks In The Copenhagen End Game
“They have just finished filming the final series of Robin Hood, unless they decide to go without the actor who plays Robin Hood, so Armitage would be free - except for the fact he is now the lead in "spooks" MI5 overseas.”
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Russian Doll Words
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Words that are also TV shows
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