probationer

Example Sentences

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They got a break when an officer charged with checking in with people on probation recognized a probationer as the suspect caught on video.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2023

During the three-day hearing, the panel was told probationer PC Shearer had been in York with a friend while off-duty on 11 September.

From BBC • Aug. 24, 2022

A 1973 law laying out those restoration rules requires the “unconditional discharge of an inmate, of a probationer, or of a parolee.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 27, 2021

Even for a probationer who truly wants to play by the rules and finish probation, it’s not easy.

From The Guardian • Mar. 5, 2020

This impression was dispelled early on when a probationer in Briony’s year, a large, kindly, slow-moving girl with a cow’s harmless gaze, met the lacerating force of the ward sister’s fury.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan