cop
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Tom Berenger plays a married Queens cop assigned to protect wealthy Manhattan murder witness Mimi Rogers, while a pre-”Sopranos” Lorraine Bracco portrays the wife he leaves waiting at home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Cole, whom news reports are calling a cop killer and a fugitive, is a British former Marine and police officer with a shadowy past that brought an abrupt end to his career in uniform.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
George Pelecanos’s most recent novel starring Derek Strange, a black cop turned private investigator in Washington, D.C., came out in 2012.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
He said the former cop was not with Knight and ordered his security team not to carry firearms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
The cop looks at Mama and nods slightly.
From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist
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Rees told him that any concerns about data-center noise were overblown—the music in her bar is way louder and the cops are never called, she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
In other cases reported in US media, cops used Flock to track women who had abortions -- illegal in several US states.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
"Terror cops now leading Ann death probe" declares the Daily Express, reporting that the "dramatic development" on Monday occurred after new information and evidence came to light.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
“Monitoring takes time and cops have to find ways to become members and that is very hard,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
Wanda kept her eyes on the cops by the entrance to the administration building, and he swore that he could feel the rage pumping through her.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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Tuchel not only had to deal with a "shocked and gutted" Maguire after he learned of his exclusion from England's World Cup, he also copped a blast from his "absolutely disgusted" mother Zoe.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
Outside of a few exceptions, substantial shares of college students in all disciplines have copped to ChatGPT-ing their way through school.
From Slate ● May 20, 2026
One of my mom group chats recently turned to strength training, and I copped to finally succumbing to peer pressure and buying weights on Amazon—5 pounders, to be exact.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
I could have copped it for a couple of days but it went on for five days.
From Barron's ● Jan. 2, 2026
Contrite, he copped a plea to a single felony count and on October 10, 1990, some two weeks after McCandless arrived in Carthage, began serving a four- month sentence in Sioux Falls.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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South African lock Lood de Jager will miss the rest of the Autumn Series of internationals after copping a four-match ban for a no-arms tackle a win over France at the weekend.
From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2025
Shaquille O’Neal drops a bomb on Jimmy Fallon, copping to the truth about the viral moment where he scooted off the ‘Inside the NBA’ set for a bathroom break.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2025
“He was just copping some Z’s for 10 minutes,” Racki told me with a laugh in 2016.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
"I remember standing on the fine-leg boundary in Pretoria and copping it from South Africa fans," he says.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2023
You know, check the place out—make sure ain't no badges copping some z's in the back.
From "Monster" by Walter Dean Myers
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