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Recent Examples of inspector
From meat inspectors to border patrol officers, many Americans who work for the federal government could soon see their jobs reclassified into at-will positions, meaning they can be dismissed for nearly any reason.
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Kate Gibson, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2025
Enslaved children cleaned chimneys, one of the most common sources of fires, under the direction of a white chimney inspector.
—Justin Hawkins / Made By History, TIME, 31 Jan. 2025
The inspectors, however, were denied access by Chicago police officers.
—Annabella Rosciglione, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 30 Jan. 2025
With so many species and shipments, wildlife inspectors are overwhelmed.
—Alice Catherine Hughes, The Conversation, 28 Jan. 2025
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Kate Gibson, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2025
Enslaved children cleaned chimneys, one of the most common sources of fires, under the direction of a white chimney inspector.
—Justin Hawkins / Made By History, TIME, 31 Jan. 2025
The inspectors, however, were denied access by Chicago police officers.
—Annabella Rosciglione, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 30 Jan. 2025
With so many species and shipments, wildlife inspectors are overwhelmed.
—Alice Catherine Hughes, The Conversation, 28 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inspector
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After requesting discovery — or the case’s evidence — since August, she’s only gotten a handful of videos, and some other documents, including a two-page detective summary.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Feb. 2025
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Season 1’s first ep was watched by 6.7M viewers and delivered the best launch amongst 25-49 year olds since hit detective series HIP, according to the French major.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
13 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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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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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 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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One of the first images that spread widely from that day was of a police vehicle coming under machine-gun fire, an attack that injured a policeman and policewoman.—
Yaakov Lappin,
Sun Sentinel,
2 Oct. 2024
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Boyd’s meeting with the policewoman, Acosta, bugged me as well.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
20 Oct. 2024
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But that night a policeman came to the house and told her James had been arrested.—
Essence,
Essence,
13 Feb. 2025
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As an undercover policeman, his job is to loiter near the men’s bathroom at the local shopping mall and seduce passing trade into committing acts of what his superiors would call gross indecency.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
27 Jan. 2025
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“Inspector.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inspector. Accessed 26 Feb. 2025.
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