private investigator
Example Sentences
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His friends hired a private investigator and hung fliers begging him to come back.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
The paper said that many had, including a private investigator hacking into a phone belonging to the murdered teenager Milly Dowler, for a News of the World story.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
“When I applied to become a private investigator, I had assumed that there would be a little bit more back-and-forth,” she told me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Multiple references are made to an op-ed Weist wrote making a case for greater regulation of the private investigator industry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
He could have gotten Nazario to hire the best private investigator in the city and traced her all the way to Florida.
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
