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gendarmerie

[zhahn-dahr-muh-ree, zhahn-dar-muh-ree] / ʒɑnˈdɑr mə ri, ʒɑ̃ dar məˈri /
NOUN
military police
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A bike racing controversy that doesn’t involve a rogue doctor and a midnight raid by the gendarmerie?

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

Nias, accompanied by a friend, passed through the Moroccan gendarmerie checks on the road to the town of just 70,000 inhabitants without difficulty "in a commercial truck".

From Barron's Aug. 1, 2026

The woman's partner, aged 55, is a former French gendarmerie officer who left the force in 2010.

From BBC May 23, 2026

Four mobile gendarmerie squadrons are being deployed as reinforcements, including 15 gendarmes from an elite intervention unit.

From Seattle Times May 15, 2024

To force a passage under the circumstances was only to give an opportunity to the gendarmerie they were long anxious for, to cut our whole equipage in pieces.

From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Charles James Lever




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