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Recent Examples of inspector
The human resources department cited telehealth providers, investigators and inspectors as examples of employees who fit into this exception.
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William Melhado, Sacramento Bee, 15 Mar. 2025
Restaurants and other food vendors ordered to close and allowed to reopen by Orange County health inspectors from March 6 to March 13.
—Ian Wheeler, Orange County Register, 15 Mar. 2025
How do these firings impact air traffic controllers and aviation safety inspectors?
Air traffic controllers were not included in the layoffs at the FAA, nor were other safety-critical professionals like inspectors.
—Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2025
For more than two decades of his Air Force career, Senior Master Sergeant Frank Haupt was a safety inspector of our nation’s missile defense installations.
—Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2025
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William Melhado, Sacramento Bee, 15 Mar. 2025
Restaurants and other food vendors ordered to close and allowed to reopen by Orange County health inspectors from March 6 to March 13.
—Ian Wheeler, Orange County Register, 15 Mar. 2025
How do these firings impact air traffic controllers and aviation safety inspectors?
Air traffic controllers were not included in the layoffs at the FAA, nor were other safety-critical professionals like inspectors.
—Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2025
For more than two decades of his Air Force career, Senior Master Sergeant Frank Haupt was a safety inspector of our nation’s missile defense installations.
—Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inspector
Noun
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No one was in custody and detectives were investigating.—
Deanese Williams-Harris,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Mar. 2025
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From there, detectives were able to identify the social media accounts associated with the sales and obtain a search warrant, police said.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
22 Mar. 2025
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The government's own investigators have repeatedly found serious problems in immigration detention centers around the country.—
Lauren Villagran,
USA TODAY,
23 Mar. 2025
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In a missing persons poster provided by the sheriff's office, investigators wrote that the family had rented a 2024 white BMW with California license plate number 9KHN768.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
People.com,
23 Mar. 2025
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However, social media sleuths later uncovered the truth that she was born and raised in the states and may have spent time in Spain with her family.—
Christina Dugan Ramirez,
Fox News,
20 Mar. 2025
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The show follows the world-famous sleuth in his formative years.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
14 Mar. 2025
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Wambaugh, who joined the LAPD as a patrolman in 1960, made a splash with his debut novel, The New Centurions, a sweeping tale that followed three young LAPD officers during a five-year period that led to the 1965 Watts riots.—
Chris Koseluk,
The Hollywood Reporter,
28 Feb. 2025
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Caught in the middle of this controversy was Deputy Keith Farquhar, then a young patrolman.—
Peter Van Sant,
CBS News,
8 Feb. 2025
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Today, the participating agencies include the Highway Patrol, the sheriff’s office in Miami-Dade, Monroe and Hillsborough counties and local police departments in Coral Gables, Tampa and St. Petersburg.—
Ana Ceballos,
Miami Herald,
19 Mar. 2025
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The sheriff’s office and an arrest warrant said Smith shut the cats in a bedroom and didn’t check on them or give them water for a week and a half.—
Jeff A. Chamer,
Charlotte Observer,
19 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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The officer questions him and checks his papers, then offers to drive him to the nearest train station — though the offer is to be taken to the station, or taken to jail.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
16 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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Since Duterte left office in 2022, only eight policemen had been convicted for five of the victims killed in the war on drugs, according to court documents.—
Zahid Mahmood,
CNN,
14 Mar. 2025
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The Observatory gave the death toll on both sides, while an anonymous local Damascus official only gave the numbers of policemen killed.—
Compiled by Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports,
arkansasonline.com,
7 Mar. 2025
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“Inspector.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inspector. Accessed 29 Mar. 2025.
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