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Recent Examples of inspector
The big picture: The race for district attorney is one of several on the ballot in the May 20 primary, along with city controller, judge of elections and inspector of elections.
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Mike D'onofrio, Axios, 18 Feb. 2025
State inspectors issued orders to dozens of stores to destroy psychoactive hemp products.
—Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
Trump's firing of inspectors was contentious A president can fire inspectors general, but Congress requires 30 days' notice and an explanation for removing an inspector general.
—Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025
Everyone along the supply chain process — from farms, to customs inspectors, to processing centers — has to hire extra people for the holiday, Boldt said.
—Leah Asmelash, CNN, 12 Feb. 2025
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Mike D'onofrio, Axios, 18 Feb. 2025
State inspectors issued orders to dozens of stores to destroy psychoactive hemp products.
—Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
Trump's firing of inspectors was contentious A president can fire inspectors general, but Congress requires 30 days' notice and an explanation for removing an inspector general.
—Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025
Everyone along the supply chain process — from farms, to customs inspectors, to processing centers — has to hire extra people for the holiday, Boldt said.
—Leah Asmelash, CNN, 12 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inspector
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Hardy plays Walker, a bruised detective fighting his way through the criminal underworld that is threatening to engulf an entire city.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
26 Feb. 2025
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Heidenreich has denied involvement in his girlfriend's death, per the AAP, despite admitting that his stepfather — a former Cairns police officer — was friendly with a detective working on the murder case.—
Becca Longmire,
People.com,
26 Feb. 2025
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The National Transportation Safety Board said a team of U.S. investigators will participate in the probe.—
Laya Neelakandan,Leslie Josephs,
CNBC,
17 Feb. 2025
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The man, who investigators believe was White and around 35 years old, offered Ronnie and his wife a short-term job at a logging camp that would also purportedly provide daycare for their children.—
Sean Neumann,
People.com,
16 Feb. 2025
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The sleuths have noted that a version of the Lively state complaint published by The Times carries the date ‘December 10’ even though the complaint wasn’t filed until more than a week later.—
Althea Legaspi,
Rolling Stone,
1 Feb. 2025
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Online sleuths noticed that Baldoni walked the red-carpet solo with his wife Emily at the Aug. 6 premiere in New York City.—
Jay Stahl,
USA TODAY,
24 Dec. 2024
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After drinking alcohol with his colleagues, the accused took a machine gun and went to the command dugout, knocked on the door, and started shooting at patrolmen, killing a junior sergeant.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
11 Feb. 2025
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Obviously, the patrolman was doing his lock checks of the stores down the street.—
Contributed Content,
Twin Cities,
21 Feb. 2024
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On Thursday, the sheriff's office identified the suspect as Yolanda Marodi, also known as Yolanda Olejniczak, 53.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA TODAY,
22 Feb. 2025
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The sheriff's office said that he was then flown to Blacktail Lodge for a medical check, where he was cleared.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
People.com,
22 Feb. 2025
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The Frito-Lay to 7Up maker will end DEI workforce representation goals and transition its chief DEI officer to a broader role looking into associate engagement and leadership development, according to a memo to company associates.—
Ananya Mariam Rajesh,
USA TODAY,
21 Feb. 2025
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In each of the last three years, COPA has recommended more meaningful discipline when officers abuse their power than its predecessors had proposed in the previous four years combined.—
Amber Hunter,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Feb. 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 Haymarket anarchists in Chicago in the eighteen-nineties may not all have been directly responsible for the bombs that killed seven policemen on a fateful day, but at least one of them had certainly built the bombs.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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When Orsolya knocks on the man’s door with an army of trigger-happy policemen at her back, the bailiff — in her infinite mercy — agrees to give the guy some time to collect his belongings.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
19 Feb. 2025
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“Inspector.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inspector. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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