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Recent Examples of policewoman
Boyd’s meeting with the policewoman, Acosta, bugged me as well.
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Erik Kain, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
However, upon her arrival, the brewing political unrest and violent protests throw her off course, compelling her to seek help from Mamata, a local Madhesi policewoman.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 Oct. 2024
At every turn, these policewomen are underestimated and undermined in equal measure by the men who’ve created their police pilot program as a mere publicity stunt.
—Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024
On December 17, 2010, a policewoman confiscated the unlicensed vegetable cart of a twenty-six-year-old street vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, in the small Tunisian city of Sidi Bouzid.
—Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 1 May 2011
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Erik Kain, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
However, upon her arrival, the brewing political unrest and violent protests throw her off course, compelling her to seek help from Mamata, a local Madhesi policewoman.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 Oct. 2024
At every turn, these policewomen are underestimated and undermined in equal measure by the men who’ve created their police pilot program as a mere publicity stunt.
—Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024
On December 17, 2010, a policewoman confiscated the unlicensed vegetable cart of a twenty-six-year-old street vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, in the small Tunisian city of Sidi Bouzid.
—Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 1 May 2011
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for policewoman
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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.—
Marina Harss,
New Yorker,
4 Apr. 2025
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Schumacher is a former policeman who created The Responder, the Martin Freeman-starring police drama that has been critically lauded.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
24 Mar. 2025
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The new season involves a prison break and follows a criminal group, the Phantom Gang, undertaking more daring heists while being pursued by the cops.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
9 Apr. 2025
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Kids threw popcorn, cheered, and gave a standing ovation, refusing to settle down even as the lights came on and the cops showed up.—
Issy van der Velde,
Rolling Stone,
9 Apr. 2025
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The two major cost drivers for overtime were an insufficient number of corrections officers to fill mandatory posts and overtime required to take inmates outside prisons for medical care, including hospital stays.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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Before working in the government, Anderson served as a pediatric critical care physician, the inaugural president of UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in San Francisco and chief medical officer of the University Hospitals Health System in Cleveland.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Mar. 2025
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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.—
Jonah Markowitz,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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In June 2021, a Lone Jack police officer spotted a speeding red pickup truck on a stretch of U.S. Highway 50.—
Bill Lukitsch,
Kansas City Star,
7 Apr. 2025
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The Vermont State Police agency, established in 1987, employs undercover state troopers as well as local, county and federal law-enforcement officers.—
Julia Marnin,
Miami Herald,
1 Apr. 2025
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As troopers responded to the area, the wrong-way vehicle reportedly sideswiped another car on the ramp, according to state police.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
1 Apr. 2025
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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.—
Hilary Whiteman,
CNN Money,
28 Mar. 2025
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The constable’s office said the victim was flown to a hospital, where his condition is unknown.—
Mike Stunson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Mar. 2025
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“Policewoman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/policewoman. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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