suspect
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That logic was already suspect, as it’s tough to claim that taxpayer dollars are being “wasted” on technologies aimed at keeping the planet suitable for human habitation.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Details on a suspect or motive weren’t immediately available.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Thomas Mücke, an extremism expert at the Violence Prevention Network VPN, told ARD television that he had met the suspect.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The suspect had made "incoherent statements", Nunez said, warning however against jumping to conclusions as to his motives.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
Mr. Pinkerton and the other men were arranged with their backs to me in a horseshoe around Mr. Drysdale, which somehow afforded our suspect the only clear view of my antics.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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His surname is not being used due to German law, which prohibits naming suspects at this stage.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
The parade was canceled, and authorities said they were searching for one or more suspects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
At this time there is no information available on any suspects, and it is unknown if she was the intended target of the shooting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
All this happens after Zack turns up with a missing toe, which Anna suspects Max orchestrated.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
I wonder, for a moment, whether he suspects me of following him.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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After hiding in a woodland near Carmarthen for three days without food or water, McKenna was arrested at Bronglais Hospital in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, as he awaited medical treatment for suspected frostbite.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Chad's decision to leave the ICC after 20 years comes amid allegations by national and international organisations of Ndjamena's suspected involvement in the war in neighbouring Sudan between the army and paramilitaries.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
Scientists have long suspected that inherited genetics helps explain these differences, but obtaining direct evidence from human studies has been difficult.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
Because this type of multipoint investigation is reactive, the product that’s suspected of causing the illness may have already moved through the supply chain into stores or restaurants and has already been consumed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
I suspected that I’d be spinning my wheel at Pet-O-Rama forever.
From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney
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Movies rarely venture so far into the hearts of ordinary people trying to do their best but suspecting they have made a great many irreparable mistakes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
When you start suspecting that your position might be terminated, it’s easy to mentally check out.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026
It is a notifiable disease so anyone suspecting their animals may have it must report it to a vet, local divisional veterinary office or to Daera directly.
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2025
This policy, she explains, “tramples the constitutional requirement that officers must have a particularized and objective basis for suspecting the particular person stopped of criminal activity.”
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2025
Billy couldn’t help suspecting that there wasn’t much to know about Robert.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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