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Country agents grabbing Bloom roughly (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

colombia

'country' is the definition.
(Colombia is an example)

'agents grabbing bloom roughly' is the wordplay.
'agents' becomes 'CIA' (Central Intelligence Agency).
'grabbing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'roughly' indicates an anagram.
'bloom' anagrammed gives 'olomb'.
'cia' placed around 'olomb' is 'COLOMBIA'.

(Other definitions for colombia that I've seen before include "Bogot++ is its capital" , "S American state" , "South American Republic" , "Bogota is its capital" , "Northwestern republic in South America" .)

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