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Recent Examples of peelerStep 8 Into a small bowl, use a vegetable peeler to shave thick curls from the chocolate.—Janice Feuer Haugen, Saveur, 12 Feb. 2025 Simply place garlic cloves inside the silicone peeler, then mash and roll it with your hand until the skins come off.—Christina Shepherd McGuire, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Feb. 2025 Bevel the edges of each piece with a vegetable peeler.—The New York Times News Service Syndicate, The Denver Post, 27 Jan. 2025 But this little number—complete with a stainless steel press and mincer, a garlic peeler, and a cleaning knife and brush—might be my answer.—Christina Shepherd McGuire, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for peeler
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.
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Hilary Whiteman,
CNN Money,
28 Mar. 2025
The constable’s office said the victim was flown to a hospital, where his condition is unknown.
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Mike Stunson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Mar. 2025
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.
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Marina Harss,
New Yorker,
4 Apr. 2025
Schumacher is a former policeman who created The Responder, the Martin Freeman-starring police drama that has been critically lauded.
The resulting bloodshed brings the pair of goofy gendarmes into bewildered action, as the Zero cavalry trots in on short-legged white horses and Jony, Line, Rudy, and the local One leader, Jane (Anamaria Vartolomei), deploy on their respective sides.
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Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
11 Mar. 2025
Some, for example, may overcome their longstanding reluctance to send their own gendarmes to provide civil order in Gaza during reconstruction, as an alternative to taking Palestinians into their own country.
Some work for the city or state: as cleaners and fare evasion beaters on the subways and buses, mental health counselors, exterminators in public housing, school teachers and police officers.
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Jonah Markowitz,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
In the Republican primary, former Pittsburgh police officer Tony Moreno leads small business owner Thomas West 46%-6%, with 46% undecided.
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