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2
a
: a mounted police officer
b
: a state police officer
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a moving Memorial Day service honoring our fallen troopers
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Both occupants were located and detained by state trooper and the Bridgeport Police Department, Allard said.
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Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 13 Mar. 2026
Sixty-one years ago this month, Alabama state troopers attacked civil rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma.
—Willie Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2026
In the early hours of an October morning, a trooper arrested a 20-year-old from his home on a country road in the north-central Missouri town of Milan.
—Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 12 Mar. 2026
Inside Resecker's truck, Texas Highway Patrol troopers found THC wax and marijuana.
—Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2026
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Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 13 Mar. 2026
Sixty-one years ago this month, Alabama state troopers attacked civil rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma.
—Willie Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2026
In the early hours of an October morning, a trooper arrested a 20-year-old from his home on a country road in the north-central Missouri town of Milan.
—Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 12 Mar. 2026
Inside Resecker's truck, Texas Highway Patrol troopers found THC wax and marijuana.
—Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2026
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“Trooper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trooper. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.
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trooper
noun
troop·er
ˈtrü-pər 
1
: a cavalry soldier
2
a
: a police officer who rides a horse
b
: a state police officer
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