hydrant
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The Hydrant Programme is a national policing programme which was originally established in 2014 "to deliver the national policing response, oversight, and coordination of non-recent child sexual abuse investigations concerning persons of public prominence".
From BBC • Nov. 6, 2024
Hydrant trucks tried to disperse the crowds with water.
From Reuters • Aug. 27, 2022
Operation Hydrant has had 2,028 referrals and all but 27 relate to football – the others involving basketball, rugby, gymnastics, martial arts, tennis, wrestling, golf, sailing, athletics, cricket and swimming.
From The Guardian • Nov. 11, 2017
It has also been made clear that any allegations of criminality will be handed to the police, specifically Operation Hydrant - a national police team co-ordinating dozens of investigations in forces around the country.
From BBC • Nov. 27, 2015
His father was editor of the Romeo Hydrant, which Mr. Buzzell mentions in his Almont stories as the "Almont Hydrant."
From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)
Vocabulary lists containing hydrant
Elements of the Universe: Hydr, Hydro ("Water")
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Roots: hydr
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