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Recent Examples of inspector
Expelling inspectors or quitting the NPT [Non-Proliferation Treaty] may be their next moves.
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Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 23 June 2025
Lewis also notes that Iran recently announced a new uranium enrichment facility at a secret location and had invited the International Atomic Agency inspectors to look at it.
—David Hambling, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
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Restaurants and other food vendors ordered to close and allowed to reopen by Orange County health inspectors from June 12 to June 19.
—Ian Wheeler, Oc Register, 21 June 2025
The restaurant and market also lacked a food manager certification for inspectors to review, and one employee did not have a food handler card.
—Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 20 June 2025
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Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 23 June 2025
Lewis also notes that Iran recently announced a new uranium enrichment facility at a secret location and had invited the International Atomic Agency inspectors to look at it.
—David Hambling, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
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Restaurants and other food vendors ordered to close and allowed to reopen by Orange County health inspectors from June 12 to June 19.
—Ian Wheeler, Oc Register, 21 June 2025
The restaurant and market also lacked a food manager certification for inspectors to review, and one employee did not have a food handler card.
—Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 20 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inspector
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No arrests had been made as an investigation by Calumet Area detectives was underway.—
Tess Kenny,
Chicago Tribune,
26 June 2025
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While Murray denied any wrongdoing, he was interviewed by LAPD detectives and his clinic in Texas was searched as part of the ongoing investigation, Murray's lawyer said in a statement.—
Alex Gurley,
People.com,
25 June 2025
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Few people, other than the investigators, had been inside the Pulse building before this past week.—
Skyler Swisher,
The Orlando Sentinel,
17 June 2025
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Middle Street and Lake Avenue were closed for several hours while investigators were at the scene.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
17 June 2025
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Meanwhile, Musk's claim taps into suspicions among conspiracy theorists and online sleuths that incriminating and sensitive files that the government possesses about Epstein's case have yet to be released.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 June 2025
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The insinuation tapped into long-standing suspicions among conspiracy theorists and online sleuths that incriminating and sensitive files in the government’s possession have yet to be released.—
Michelle L. Price,
Chicago Tribune,
5 June 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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The sheriff’s office and the Coast Guard responded about 3 p.m. Saturday to reports that 10 people were in the water next to a capsized boat near California’s D.L. Bliss State Park, at the southwestern end of the lake.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
23 June 2025
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The sheriff's office has warned that Decker should be considered armed and dangerous.—
Jenna Sundel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 June 2025
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Towels Pop all of your family's bath and hand towels into the wash every Friday, advises Tanu Grewal, who is the chief cleaning officer at Pinalen Cleaner, Cloralen Bleach, and Ensueno Laundry in Houston, Texas.—
Sarah Lyon,
Southern Living,
20 June 2025
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Writer/director Williams spent four years visiting Australian prisons and interviewing officers and inmates, many of whom are featured.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
20 June 2025
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Historians have long debated which pioneer in the field of women’s policing holds the title of the U.S.’s first policewoman, as opposed to police matron.—
Peter Zablocki,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 Mar. 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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Some of the policemen were busy convincing men with rifles who had positioned themselves in between the houses along West Sullivan Street, facing the school, to hold their fire.—
Sally Ventura
June 23,
Literary Hub,
23 June 2025
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Baruchel will play Jacob Merrick, a small-town policeman.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
13 June 2025
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“Inspector.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inspector. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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