patrol
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Around 8 a.m., a CHP patrol vehicle slammed into the SUV, sending the vehicle over a curb, footage on FOX11 showed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
If I were on patrol to figure out where online subcultures were diverging from political reality, I’d start there.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
As a highway patrol officer hit the lights and sirens, and repeatedly said “Stop, Waymo,” over a speaker, the AV kept barreling forward toward the construction vehicles and workers, Slade said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
From spring to late summer, they patrol beaches, check on fencing protecting nests and remove any predators such as hedgehogs.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
He’d prayed to the Six that he wouldn’t be assigned a patrol shift tonight, but it seemed the gods either hadn’t heard him or hadn’t cared.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
Coast Guard Lieutenant Mohammad Rawnak Rahman patrols the mouth of the Naf, the river that marks the border between Bangladesh and Myanmar.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
There are rules about such patrols, including having police officers present, so Ogdansky objected.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
It includes more police patrols in the downtown core.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
As a stopgap, the VA brought on a private security firm in June to provide uniformed 24-hour “observe and report” sentry posts and roving patrols.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Nothing but the patrols moved in Warsaw at this time of night.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
The area last week was surrounded by surveillance cameras and patrolled by National Guardsmen as lifelong resident John Cates strolled the area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
“Individuals who lived, fed, groomed and patrolled together for years became targets of lethal attacks on the basis of their new group membership,” the authors reported recently in the journal Science.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026
Darkened store fronts outnumbered open ones, and orange-vested volunteers wearing whistles patrolled the sidewalks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026
He raided from the right, Mane patrolled the left, while Firmino could play as a striker or drop deep to add subtle brushstrokes to a fluid, devastating combination.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026
I patrolled to make sure the work got done and no one was loitering.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
Instead, these legendary predators may still be quietly patrolling the region's waters, largely unseen.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026
Los Angeles police officers were patrolling the park around 10: 20 p.m. on May 5 when they spotted Johnson abruptly conduct a U-turn in front of them, according to an affidavit filed with the complaint.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
With bands of men patrolling the 273,000-acre forest, poachers and illegal loggers have stayed away, allowing the grasslands to rejuvenate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
City officials said local hunters were expected to begin patrolling the area on Friday, according to the broadcaster.
From Barron's ● May 8, 2026
Most of the patrols going out were Vietnamese, and Johnson said that he didn’t think most of them were really patrolling.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
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