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patrol

[puh-trohl] / pəˈtroʊl /




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The head of Ukraine's patrol police, Yevhen Zhukov, has resigned after two of his officers faced criticism for allegedly fleeing a deadly mass shooting in the capital, Kyiv.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026

Lord knows what the neighborhood will look like without her on patrol.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026

For years, researchers questioned whether macrophages, the immune cells that patrol the body and clean up debris, could truly become senescent.

From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2026

When I was in Iraq, on patrol and during emergency responder training, I was given the option of picking my own radio call sign.

From Slate • Apr. 13, 2026

Diving at five hundred miles per hour, they saw the docks, and tied up there, as the briefers had told them, were four torpedo boats and one bigger patrol ship.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin




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