How to Use whistleblower in a Sentence

whistleblower

noun
  • The New York Times was first to report the whistleblower complaint.
    Gregory Wallace, CNN, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Word got out that there was a whistleblower wanting to meet.
    Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
  • His lawyers questioned why the whistleblowers went to the FBI, rather than to Paxton, with their concerns.
    Caroline Linton, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The identity of the whistleblower has not been made public.
    Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The whistleblower case is still active and the plaintiffs have received no money to date.
    Lauren McGaughy, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Herstein filed suit as a whistleblower asking to get his job back.
    Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Members of the group told the Times that the airman was not a whistleblower, and the secret documents were never meant to go beyond their group.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2023
  • This transmission was one of at least three whistleblower complaints sent to the board about a small cohort of senior staff since 2019.
    Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2023
  • But then a whistleblower reached out to a local law professor.
    Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 23 Jan. 2024
  • These are not Republican whistleblowers by the way, these are Democrats.
    Xerxes Wilson, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
  • The whistleblower complaints came from about a dozen school employees.
    Leslie Postal, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
  • On Friday, the whistleblower responded to the Ford letter.
    Detroit Free Press, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Prior to 2019, if a technician wasn’t certified, Ford wouldn’t pay for the repair, the whistleblower said.
    Detroit Free Press, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Hundreds have been arrested since and there have been no whistleblowers.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Barnett later filed a whistleblower complaint with the FAA.
    Niha Masih, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Some whistleblower lawyers are encouraging more reporting of any agreement that might fall afoul of the spirit of the law.
    Mengqi Sun, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Both Garland and Weiss, in letters to Congress, have disputed the whistleblower's claims.
    Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2023
  • However, the fentanyl lollipops could not be secured because a vendor could not be found in time, the whistleblower said.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Now one of America’s top whistleblower attorneys is moving to stop the SEC.
    Lydia Depillis, ProPublica, 13 Jan. 2021
  • The scandal began after a whistleblower came forward in April 2023.
    Yuri Kageyama, Quartz, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Congress gave Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower, a hero’s welcome.
    Tim Wu, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2023
  • After the Guardado shooting, a whistleblower claimed that Vega and Hernandez were prospective members of the group.
    Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Debra Katz is a whistleblower and civil rights attorney and a founding partner of Katz Banks Kumin.
    Debra Katz, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
  • His world was crashing down, too, when whistleblowers alerted people to the fact that Macchiarini’s patients kept dying.
    Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2023
  • For two more years, whistleblowers kept crying foul, and French assessments kept implying fraud.
    Michael McCaul, National Review, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The network, for instance, chose not to offer live coverage of the IRS whistleblower testimony to Congress last month.
    Fox News, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Some of the tax crimes that the whistleblower said investigators had wanted to pursue can no longer be charged because the statute of limitations has expired.
    Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2023
  • In January 2023 — the same month the law took effect — lawyers for the county deposed a whistleblower who’d accused officials of failing to protect him from a deputy gang known as the Banditos.
    Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Dean’s death comes less than two months after the death of Barnett, another whistleblower who had spent years warning about lax safety standards at Boeing.
    Koh Ewe, TIME, 2 May 2024
  • Thanks to the eye-opening whistleblower testimony, Garland has lots of explaining to do.
    The Editors, National Review, 21 July 2023

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