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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 comedy that launches the action—J’s meet-cute with a woman called Parm (Karen Black) while stealing her car—soon curdles into cruel absurdity as policemen (Ed Madsen and a young Robert De Niro) force J to become an informant.—
Marina Harss,
New Yorker,
4 Apr. 2025
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Schumacher is a former policeman who created The Responder, the Martin Freeman-starring police drama that has been critically lauded.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
24 Mar. 2025
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The new season involves a prison break and follows a criminal group, the Phantom Gang, undertaking more daring heists while being pursued by the cops.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
9 Apr. 2025
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Kids threw popcorn, cheered, and gave a standing ovation, refusing to settle down even as the lights came on and the cops showed up.—
Issy van der Velde,
Rolling Stone,
9 Apr. 2025
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Several officers have filed claims against Farley over harassment and inappropriate behavior.—
Real-Time News team,
Miami Herald,
28 Mar. 2025
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But the car, which was clocked at 96 miles per hour, eluded the officer.—
Clifford Ward,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Mar. 2025
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The new policewoman’s main duties included supervising and enforcing laws relating to dance halls, skating rinks, penny arcades, movie theaters and other places of public recreation.—
Peter Zablocki,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 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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Villanueva, his instincts honed by his decades of service as a lawman, intuits that the only way a human being can reasonably incur a rug burn is via high-friction hotel room coitus with a 250-pound man.—
Chris Klimek,
Vulture,
20 Mar. 2025
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Being part of a successful posse could earn a man a share of the reward money put up by the railroad, which was just a pittance compared to what the robbers took while the lawmen chasing them lived in the saddle for days or even weeks.—
Richard Selcer,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 Mar. 2025
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The movie is based on the Jim Abrahams and David Zucker and Jerry Zucker franchise The Naked Gun that originally starred Leslie Nielsen as self-serious detective Frank Drebin, who managed to fail up through the ranks of the police squad.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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The Mecklenburg County District Attorney’s Office declined to bring charges after speaking with CMPD detectives, the department said.—
Jeff A. Chamer,
Charlotte Observer,
3 Apr. 2025
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Last November, a jury rejected his claim that Nowland posed a threat and found the former senior constable guilty of breaching his duty of care by deploying his weapon against the elderly woman, who later died of her injuries.—
Hilary Whiteman,
CNN Money,
28 Mar. 2025
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The constable’s office said the victim was flown to a hospital, where his condition is unknown.—
Mike Stunson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Mar. 2025
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An investigation remains active and ongoing, the sheriff's office said.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2025
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That person was transported to a local hospital in critical condition but has since been upgraded to stable, according to the sheriff's office.—
Nadine El-Bawab,
ABC News,
11 Apr. 2025
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“Patrolman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patrolman. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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