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inspector

[in-spek-ter] / ɪnˈspɛk tər /


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"The news coming in is truly worrying. However... there is nothing I can actually do about it," Mohadese, a 27-year-old health inspector, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

“Oh, crap,” thought Stafford, a quality inspector at a machine shop in this East Texas city known as the Rose Capital of America.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

An audit by the Postal Service’s inspector general found that agency staff in these areas sometimes didn’t handle ballots correctly, mainly because instructions weren’t clearly communicated.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026

Instead, he’s in Sweden, raising two boys, working as a quality control inspector for a textile company and playing amateur soccer for a team in the country’s fifth division.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

It's a sign that the inspector takes him seriously.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Iran would then allow international nuclear inspectors back into the country and start a discussion on its stockpile of enriched uranium within a few days, they said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

French labour inspectors believe that BHV Marais has not been making payments, which its management has denied.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

U.S. inspectors found egregious conditions at two Chinese factories making key components for compounded GLP-1 drugs popular in America, including black mold and “gross contamination” at one plant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Medical safety inspectors described the site on Lister Lane as a "building site" and said there was evidence of people living there.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Paul Marshall came in from searching and learned the news from the inspectors.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan


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