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as in law
the department of government that keeps order, fights crime, and enforces statutes
the appearance of a ransom note meant that the teenager's disappearance was now a matter for the police
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as in constabulary
a body of officers of the law
the National Guard will serve as backup for the metropolitan police in the event of violent protests
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as in to control
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Recent Examples of police
Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Sep. 2025
The problem has become so pronounced that some states, including Connecticut, have recently passed laws giving law enforcement greater powers to police these shops.
—Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
Inderjit Singh, 30, is facing one count of vehicular homicide, Nashville police said.
—Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 24 Sep. 2025
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Noun
Dale Carpenter, a constitutional law professor at Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law, said the government has broad authority to police the speech of public school teachers — but only in certain circumstances.
—Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Sep. 2025
The problem has become so pronounced that some states, including Connecticut, have recently passed laws giving law enforcement greater powers to police these shops.
—Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
TxDOT traffic cameras captured dozens of emergency vehicles and police units converging near the ICE facility off I-35E and Empire Central.
—Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
Inderjit Singh, 30, is facing one count of vehicular homicide, Nashville police said.
—Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 24 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for police
Noun
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Within days, regulators determined the hospital had violated federal law.—
ProPublica,
ProPublica,
22 Sep. 2025
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Trump is set to sign an executive order later this week stating that the deal constitutes a qualified divestiture as required by the ban-or-sale law that passed last year, the official said.—
Clare Duffy,
CNN Money,
22 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The news went out last weekend that Cadillac had been accepted by the F1 constabulary as the sport’s eleventh team, slated to enter the competition in 2026.—
Peter Lyon,
Forbes,
28 Nov. 2024
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With Ida Engvoll as Rebecka, a Stockholm lawyer back in her small hometown after the death of a friend, and Eva Melander as Mella, chief inspector of the local constabulary, who appropriates her semi-formally to the force.—
Robert Lloyd,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2023
Verb
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Cycling the heat on and off allows the robots to adjust speed and even change direction — proof that controlled, repeatable motion is possible at this tiny scale.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Sep. 2025
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The goals of treatment are to control the infection, stabilize the patient and support any organs that are affected or failing.—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
25 Sep. 2025
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Since August 2000, Lakeside has been owned by Universal Health Services, a for-profit corporation that operates hundreds of inpatient and outpatient behavioral health facilities, in addition to psychiatric hospitals, and made $16 billion in revenues last year.—
ProPublica,
ProPublica,
22 Sep. 2025
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Usman’s twin boys were among more than 55,000 children receiving therapeutic food in Borno before the program was abruptly ended earlier this year, following a US funding cut, according to Mercy Corps, which operated three outpatient nutrition clinics in northeast Nigeria.—
Lauren Kent,
CNN Money,
21 Sep. 2025
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The opinion, issued 10 days ago in California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal, is a clear example of why the state’s legal authorities are scrambling to regulate the use of AI in the judiciary.—
CalMatters,
Mercury News,
22 Sep. 2025
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This regulates your body’s fight or flight response, mood, attention, focus, learning, and memory.—
Mark Gurarie,
Health,
22 Sep. 2025
Verb
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While the agents' colleagues were divided over the move at the time, the Bureau, under then-Director Christopher Wray, conducted a review and did not find grounds for discipline, CNN reports.—
Huo Jingnan,
NPR,
27 Sep. 2025
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The recall was initiated as a result of an analysis conducted by the FDA, which revealed the cinnamon product contained elevated levels of lead, according to the notice.—
Jonathan Limehouse,
USA Today,
27 Sep. 2025
Verb
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That's what's being governed here.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
21 Sep. 2025
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Raised money will be put towards training, coaching, travel and recovery costs, the governing body said, whose women’s team rank second in the world despite their amateur status.—
Jack Bantock,
CNN Money,
20 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The dispute affected educators and policymakers statewide — but Pendleton managed to take the best of both literacy methods and apply them to the 130,000-plus students then enrolled in San Diego schools, Lopez said.—
Jemma Stephenson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Sep. 2025
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This was big news in an evolving saga of how college athletics departments, facing seismic financial change, would manage to cope with growing costs like revenue-sharing with athletes.—
Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Police.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/police. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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