countrywide

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Huddled around a small makeshift memorial of votive candles and flowers, those gathered demanded that the Inglewood Police Department adopt body-worn cameras, as many police agencies countrywide have done.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has described the situation countrywide as "a national shame", while the Royal College of Nursing has called it "a national emergency".

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026

And he ruthlessly stamped out internal challenges to his rule, including several waves of countrywide unrest.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2026

Bazaaris provided financial support to the opposition and drew on their countrywide networks to help organize the unrest, lending decisive help to the uprising that included Iran’s mosque network, trade unions and many ordinary people.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

These foreign holdings or “cleruchies” not only put underused land back into taxable cultivation, but also afforded the king what was essentially a countrywide system of garrisons.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro