inspector

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Recent Examples of inspector Sides was a contract inspector who worked for Victory Powerline Services. Victoria Arancio, ABC News, 25 Apr. 2025 The Japanese restaurant was given a yellow placard after inspectors found multiple repeat health code violations. Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 25 Apr. 2025 Health inspectors first visited the store on March 25 and 26, and observed fresh rodent droppings in multiple areas of the deli section and live cockroaches in the bakery department. Stephanie Lam, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2025 Two Fort Worth restaurants were closed after health inspectors found roach infestations and rodent droppings, latest inspection report shows. Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for inspector
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Noun
  • Last fans saw, she was picked up by two New York Police Department officers who escorted her off a bus and told her detectives at the police station had questions for her about Famous' death.
    Julia Moore, People.com, 9 May 2025
  • On the day of the killing, police said that Hawkins was cooperating with detectives’ investigation.
    Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • Similarly, in October 2023, Orange County investigators used the technology to identity Michael Ray Schlicht of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, whose body had been found in 1974 near in unincorporated Laguna Hills, now the city of Aliso Viejo, California.
    Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 13 May 2025
  • When investigators found the listeria on the Fresh & Ready equipment this year, scientists at the FDA used whole genome sequencing analysis, which confirmed that the strain of listeria found at Fresh & Ready Foods matched the strain of listeria causing illnesses in the 2024 outbreak.
    Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • The trailers have not given much away, leading online sleuths to form their own theories about how that on-stage moment in L.A., which Tesfaye has attributed to psychological factors like stress, plays into the narrative.
    Jessica Wang, EW.com, 8 May 2025
  • Internet sleuths have already guessed that in certain frames, Fanning’s Thia could be a Weyland-Yutani android.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Yet Feeley kept his badge; he was simply demoted to patrolman after serving a mere 45-day suspension.
    Marc J. Dunkelman, TIME, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Before the escape, the sheriff’s office was in the process of transferring dozens to more secure locations, according to the outlet.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 18 May 2025
  • According to the sheriff's office, Myles is back in custody after he was apprehended and returned by the Louisiana State Police.
    Emma Marsden, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 May 2025
Noun
  • Lawyers for the Harris County traffic cop said missteps by an officer prior to an escalating event do not strip them of the right to self-defense thereafter.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 16 May 2025
  • The search operation has included officers knocking on doors and requesting residents to give DNA samples to see if there are any relations to the babies.
    Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Soon, local dance halls were forced to adhere to the policewoman’s new regulations, from changing their provocative business names to installing better lighting to barring men from approaching women without a formal introduction by an usher.
    Peter Zablocki, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The second Trump administration looks set to entirely do away the role of world policeman, and cynics might say, replace it with the role for rent collector.
    Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
  • His son Flávio had been found to be paying a salary to the wife and the mother of a fugitive policeman who was wanted for running a murder-for-hire operation.
    Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025

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“Inspector.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inspector. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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