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Recent Examples of gendarme The defense also raised concerns about witness tampering, after private communications appeared to show Vatican gendarmes and prosecutors working to pressure a key witness. Dan Cody, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025 Good thing the gendarmes were so generous. Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2025 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. 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. Carine Harb, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gendarme
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Noun
  • Through the streets of World War I Paris, the bohemian artist attempts to outmaneuver bombs, policemen, girlfriends, and critics in an increasingly desperate search of a home for his art.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The officer tells Wallen that the police were attempting to understand what happened after a chair fell from the bar’s rooftop and landed by the policeman’s patrol car.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Staff at The Free Press are eager to start working with CBS News; reporter Olivia Reingold appeared on CBS News Friday morning to discuss her report that anonymous NYPD officers had been threatening to quit the force if Zohran Mamdani is elected New York City mayor.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Police issued a statement to the Observer saying four officers have been temporarily reassigned to uptown.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This show will be quite the departure for the Bosch-iverse, as Michael Connelly hasn’t written much about Bosch’s days as a rookie cop.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Federal agents then deployed tear gas into the street, and 13 Chicago cops were exposed to the tear gas.
    Landon Mion , Bill Melugin, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Kamal says the constables accused him of forging them and detained him.
    Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Randles plays Elle Hardy, a senior constable assigned to reinvestigating the case.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Gendarme.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gendarme. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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