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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
Noun
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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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Repeating this painstaking detective work enough times helps reveal patterns among young cancer patients, giving Ogino and his team clues as to what may have caused their diseases.—
Jamie Ducharme,
TIME,
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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In the basement, investigators found Arnold’s blood, according to prosecutors.—
Jennifer Rodriguez,
Kansas City Star,
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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Attorneys for the County of San Diego have argued that reports produced by the sheriff’s Critical Incident Review Board, or CIRB, are protected by attorney-client privilege because of the presence of the sheriff’s lawyer at review board meetings.—
Kelly Davis,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Feb. 2025
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Should the sheriff be removed, the Board of Supervisors would have 30 days to appoint a replacement or call a special election.—
Ryan Macasero,
The Mercury News,
9 Feb. 2025
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The officer approached the man, identified as Espinoza, for questioning, the bureau said.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
8 Feb. 2025
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Haider said Abdul suspects that the letter likely came from someone who lives in the same apartment complex on Jan. 24, days before federal immigration officers carried out arrests in Chicago and the suburbs.—
Richard Requena,
Chicago Tribune,
8 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 21 Feb. 2025.
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