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police

[puh-lees] / pəˈlis /


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Irvine police arrested her last week after her return to the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

Teams of Red Cross workers offered support to groups of people who arrived, some of them in tears, amid crowds of police and journalists from around the world.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

After crossing the border, Bolsonaro’s vehicle was escorted by Argentina’s airport security police to the immigration checkpoint at Iguazú Falls International Airport.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

A small protest near the parade was moved on by the police.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

“Really,” she said disgustedly, “if the cute janitor wanted to warn you, he should have provided a few more details. Names, dates—something you could go to the police with.”

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

As part of a highly credentialed startup team that worked on this problem for many years, I saw firsthand how difficult it is to make progress against a cartel that polices its own borders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

“Not all term polices have conversion features,” Harrison said.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 13, 2026

It polices remedies and the finality of convictions, not the enforceability of unconstitutional laws going forward.

From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2026

The statewide agency, which mainly polices traffic violations on freeways and oversees state property, has sworn in more than 600 new officers this year — a total that many departments would envy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2025

One squad polices the camp within the company police limits.

From Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Infantry of the Army of the United States, 1917 To be used by Engineer companies (dismounted) and Coast Artillery companies for Infantry instruction and training by United States War Department

Giancarlo: Traditional gambling, which is well policed by state authorities, involves a booking.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

Law enforcement policed criminal activity; agencies with national-security duties kept their distance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Compliance would be policed for 10 years by an independent auditor chosen jointly by Meta and the states, and paid for by the company.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

It was the era of “Urban Cowboy” and purity was being policed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

A peek at the entries for these words in any dictionary will show that Macdonald was wrong about the inevitable degeneration of a language that is not policed by lexicographers.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

I asked Oyin about the brand risk of policing points.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Their demands vary, but they are united in wanting to make their often marginalised voices heard, sometimes even with radical methods in the face of heavy-handed policing.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

The Women Against Rape campaign group said the BBC's investigation raised serious questions about whether policing had learned the lessons of the Everard case and subsequent reviews.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

“Certainly they share some similar values when it comes to policing, especially on the prosecutorial side. Gascón was, I think it’s fair to say, lenient with some of his prosecutorial decisions,” Saggau said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

But there is a puzzling gap between the scale of the changes in policing and the size of the effect on places like Brownsville and East New York.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell


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