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probationary

[proh-bey-shuh-ner-ee] / proʊˈbeɪ ʃəˌnɛr i /




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According to court documents, Probationary Constable Morgan Royston, 26, had seen the film the previous evening and told Gaynor that he would spoil it for him.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2023

Probationary officers are usually given 12 weeks of training before deployment.

From BBC • Dec. 7, 2021

Probationary sentences “should not necessarily become the default,” prosecutors wrote.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 29, 2021

Probationary firefighter Ron Johnson Jr. spotted small pills in the carpet.

From Washington Post • Apr. 29, 2017

The good-nature of the royal pair might have softened even the authors of the Probationary Odes, and could not but be delightful to a young lady who had been brought up a Tory.

From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron




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