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Recent Examples of inspector
The deal should also require that Tehran let the IAEA verify how Iranian nuclear equipment and materials are being used, with the clear understanding that if the agency’s inspectors were ever stonewalled, Washington would be within its rights to revoke the agreement.
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Richard Nephew, Foreign Affairs, 26 May 2025
Between them, Local 3621 and Local 2507 represent thousands of FDNY emergency medical technicians, paramedics, fire inspectors and emergency response managers.
—Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 21 May 2025
Michelin Guide inspectors check in anonymously, evaluate hotels’ unique concepts and personalities, and suss out the quality of their hospitality.
—Ann Abel, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
Since then, its team of incognito inspectors have checked into thousands of hotels, dined at just as many restaurants, and experienced scores of spa treatments to bring you information on the very best places to stay, eat and relax around the world.
—Forbes Travel Guide, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
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Richard Nephew, Foreign Affairs, 26 May 2025
Between them, Local 3621 and Local 2507 represent thousands of FDNY emergency medical technicians, paramedics, fire inspectors and emergency response managers.
—Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 21 May 2025
Michelin Guide inspectors check in anonymously, evaluate hotels’ unique concepts and personalities, and suss out the quality of their hospitality.
—Ann Abel, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
Since then, its team of incognito inspectors have checked into thousands of hotels, dined at just as many restaurants, and experienced scores of spa treatments to bring you information on the very best places to stay, eat and relax around the world.
—Forbes Travel Guide, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inspector
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While genre fiction steadily advances onto bestseller lists, realism soldiers on, amid cyborgs and dragons and boozy detectives.—
Hamilton Cain,
Los Angeles Times,
2 June 2025
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Last week, prosecutors called their final witness, the Chicago police detective who was the lead investigator in the case.—
Madeline Buckley,
Chicago Tribune,
2 June 2025
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But the claim started to unravel as investigators talked to Morales Reyes, who doesn’t speak English fluently, and obtained a handwriting sample from him that was different from the handwriting in the letters, according to court documents.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
5 June 2025
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Sacramento police investigators are still working to determine how the 36-year-old mother of four became fatally pinned between her sport utility vehicle and another car in a shopping center’s parking lot on Rush River Drive in Sacramento’s Pocket neighborhood Tuesday evening.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
5 June 2025
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Chen – a pseudonym to protect his real identity – is part of a team of internet sleuths whose mission is to shut down a shadowy global network that mutilates and kills cats for profit.—
Rebecca Wright,
CNN Money,
30 May 2025
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But the pleasure of extra time spent around this group of improbably brilliant, low-fi sleuths — Rose busts out a magnifying glass at one point, while Hardy is fond of quoting 1930s armchair detective hero Nero Wolfe — more than justifies any unnecessary twists to the main story.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
29 May 2025
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Police believe Johnson was shot around 2 p.m. While a patrolman was writing a report at the Gary Police Station, 555 Polk St., a man who matched the one seen on the video walked by him and a colleague.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
16 May 2025
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Even though his father was a former patrolman, court papers say, the business was often extorted by a local gang called Barrio 18, which eventually began a campaign of threats and violence against the family.—
Alan Feuer,
New York Times,
4 Apr. 2025
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Hundreds of law enforcement personnel have been searching for Decker — scouring forested areas, structures and a river in the area where Decker was last known to be located, the sheriff's office said over the weekend.—
Sarah Lynch Baldwin
June 9,
CBS News,
9 June 2025
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The suspect's dog has also been recovered and turned over to a humane society for care, the sheriff's office said.—
Meredith Deliso,
ABC News,
9 June 2025
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Another woman was arrested after allegedly assaulting an officer, too.—
Nicholas Williams,
New York Daily News,
8 June 2025
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Hundreds of law enforcement officers at the local, state and federal level spent nearly two weeks searching for Hardin, using dogs, drones and aircraft, at times hampered by severe weather.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
8 June 2025
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Amedy Coulibaly, an accomplice who killed a policewoman and four hostages in a kosher supermarket in Paris during the manhunt for the Kouachis, had been convicted five times for armed robbery.—
Diego Gambetta,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Mar. 2016
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Brady’s and Benson’s questioning styles vary greatly — Brady is fairly blunt, and Benson is all huggy-soft-voice-let-me-get-you-tea — and the two policewomen have it out during a break in questioning.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
17 Apr. 2025
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The Snitch and played a sympathetic policeman in the alien drama Glitch.—
Joan MacDonald,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2025
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Bush came to office determined not to act as the global policeman.—
Stephen Collinson,
CNN Money,
31 May 2025
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“Inspector.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inspector. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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