Spygate

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  1. 1
    The 2007 National Football League videotaping controversy.

    "Then-Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., who died in 2012, sought to launch a separate investigation into the Spygate scandal."

  2. 2
    The 2007 Formula One espionage controversy.

    "The World Motor Sport Council (WMSC) of the FIA, motor sport's governing body, has fined McLaren -- the team at the center of the "spygate" scandal -- $100m and stripped it of its constructors' championship points for the season. And McLaren faces further penalties when the WMSC reconvenes in December 2007."

  3. 3
    A conspiracy theory claiming that Barack Obama's administration planted a spy in Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. US, neologism

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stepneygate

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"Then-Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., who died in 2012, sought to launch a separate investigation into the Spygate scandal."

Etymology

From spy + -gate.

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