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- noun Plural form of
espionage .
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Examples
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Ages there was no electronic equipment for espionages and subversive purposes.
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It was through a story of that kind that she learned the altercation between Florent and Gorka in the vestibule, which proves, between parentheses, that these espionages by the aid of servants are often efficacious.
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They all had a background of political philosophy the nucleus of which was individual liberty; they all had a violent distaste for the petty tyrannies and espionages which contact with their own form of government had produced; and in coming to America they all sought, besides farms and jobs, political freedom.
Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making Samuel Peter Orth 1897
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It was through a story of that kind that she learned the altercation between Florent and Gorka in the vestibule, which proves, between parentheses, that these espionages by the aid of servants are often efficacious.
Cosmopolis — Complete Paul Bourget 1893
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