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Recent Examples of patrolman
He was arrested in August 1975 after a highway patrolman pulled him over for speeding and found suspicious items in his car, including a ski mask and a crowbar.
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Jessica Sager, People.com, 24 Jan. 2025
That policy is so old that Chapman remembers it from his rookie year in the NYPD as a young patrolman in East Harlem in 1968.
—Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2025
Once in the governor's office, the future president quickly changed the complexion of the state workforce, placing Blacks in 40 percent of influential positions, including boosting their number on Georgia boards from three to 53 and appointing the first Black state patrolman.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
The Morris County Prosecutor's Office in New Jersey says patrolmen from law enforcement also spotted the drones.
—John Bacon, The Courier-Journal, 18 Dec. 2024
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Jessica Sager, People.com, 24 Jan. 2025
That policy is so old that Chapman remembers it from his rookie year in the NYPD as a young patrolman in East Harlem in 1968.
—Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2025
Once in the governor's office, the future president quickly changed the complexion of the state workforce, placing Blacks in 40 percent of influential positions, including boosting their number on Georgia boards from three to 53 and appointing the first Black state patrolman.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
The Morris County Prosecutor's Office in New Jersey says patrolmen from law enforcement also spotted the drones.
—John Bacon, The Courier-Journal, 18 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for patrolman
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The killers included white policemen, sheriffs, businessmen, even a legislator—all part of the Jim Crow system aimed at disenfranchising Black voters.—
Essence,
Essence,
10 Mar. 2025
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Johnson further sent a thousand military policemen and two thousand Army troops to escort the march.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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Billed as a mafia thriller and family tragedy, the six-part series turns on Anto, a Parisian cop of Corsican origin, who returns to his homeland with wife Vanina, to take over the family vineyard.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
17 Mar. 2025
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Things escalate quickly, and the cops and criminals engage in a shootout.—
Matt Cabral,
EW.com,
16 Mar. 2025
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Logansport Police officer Cody Scott and his wife, Kylie Scott, were both charged with two counts of felony child neglect.—
Landon Mion,
Fox News,
16 Mar. 2025
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According to a news release, the Maryland State Police Homicide Unit was notified Thursday after correctional officers discovered 21-year-old Lawrence Antonio Borom lying on the floor with apparent head injuries.—
Matt Hubbard,
Baltimore Sun,
16 Mar. 2025
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In Andrea Gets a Divorce, hope turns into a whole set of emotions as a countryside policewoman yearning for a promotion faces a moral quandary after accidentally killing her soon-to-be-ex in a hit-and-run accident.—
Georg Szalai,
The Hollywood Reporter,
26 Feb. 2025
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But once there, an overly law – abiding British policewoman drags him deep down into the mysterious disappearance of a foreign billionaire, and the most complicated case of murders in his entire career.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
21 Feb. 2025
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The show is envisioned as an anthology series following a new historic lawman every season.—
Brayden Garcia,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
6 Feb. 2025
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And not all lawmen were like Alberti: a constable Southerners mistakenly wired about six fugitives alerted Still instead.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
10 Jan. 2025
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Drain, the detective who worked on missing-person cases in Seattle, became a strong advocate for NamUs.—
Nick McMillan,
NPR,
10 Mar. 2025
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Brett Payne, the lead detective in the case, said at the same hearing.—
Eric Levenson,
CNN,
10 Mar. 2025
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On Friday, as residents gathered at the Bilal mosque for afternoon prayers, several constables, sheriff’s deputies and private security guards stood watch.—
Edgar Sandoval,
New York Times,
4 Jan. 2025
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The budget also covers the Health Department, sheriff's office, circuit court divisions, prosecuting attorney, coroner, constables, Office of Emergency Management, museum, Veterans Services and Cooperative Extension.—
Eplunus Colvin,
arkansasonline.com,
3 Jan. 2025
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The sheriff's office said Tuesday that the company that provides natural gas service for the home made no significant findings after looking for gas leaks and carbon monoxide, the colorless, odorless gas that can be fatal by depriving people from getting enough oxygen.—
Alex Sundby,
CBS News,
7 Mar. 2025
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The sheriff’s office is expected to release body camera footage from the scene in the coming weeks.—
Elizabeth Wolfe,
CNN,
7 Mar. 2025
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“Patrolman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patrolman. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.
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