INSPECTORS Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

inspectors

noun

plural of inspector

as in investigators

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Noun

The affidavit in the case says investigators found three checks Fernandez Saldana wrote to Tenon in October 2022, CNN previously reported, and phone records show the men had more than 60 phone contacts with each other.

— Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026
Combs has repeatedly denied any involvement in Shakur’s killing and has never been named by investigators as a suspect or even a person of interest in the case.

— Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of investigators

Noun

Detectives spoke with another psychic who first reached out to Sophie’s family before detectives followed up with them, police said, adding the psychic had offered services for free.

— Amanda Musa, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026
According to Fort Worth police, homicide detectives are investigating.

— Doug Myers, CBS News, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of detectives

Noun

And some local activists and internet sleuths are scouring the hillsides and topo maps trying to determine which properties would benefit most from the recent tree poisonings.

— Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2026
Tips have poured in from as far away as Kansas, with internet sleuths and true crime influencers tracking every theory.

— Eileen Murphy, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of sleuths

Noun

The department said officers responded to a home Friday night in the area of South Main and Mann streets, where they were told that a man climbed through a window and assaulted someone who lives there.

— Logan Hall, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026
Hegseth has aggressively moved to reshape the military's senior ranks, removing or sidelining more than two dozen senior officers, without explanation, including a number of women and minorities.

— Steven Beynon, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of officers

Noun

The author argues that sheriffs should not have independent authority over ballots and election procedures, and calls for the state legislature to clarify sheriff powers by amending the constitution to make sheriffs appointed rather than elected, similar to police chiefs.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2026
Those sheriffs were featured in a recent Courier Journal investigation that found that one in six Kentucky counties has had a sheriff criminally charged or convicted since 2010.

— Josh Wood, Louisville Courier Journal, 26 Sep. 2025

Definition of sheriffs

Noun

People began rioting in Los Angeles’ predominantly Black Watts neighborhood after a crowd watched White policemen forcefully subdue a Black man.

— USA Today, USA Today, 28 July 2026
Over the weekend, dozens of plain-clothes policemen entered the protest site and dragged Wangchuk into an ambulance.

— Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 20 July 2026

Definition of policemen

Noun

In the years since Shakur’s murder, what exactly happened in that hail of bullets -- and who pulled the trigger -- was obscured by a lack of physical evidence, feuding cops and the gangland code of silence.

— Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
He was pulled over by the cops after his honeypot encounter with Alice, but talked his way out of a DWI and is still on the street.

— Erin Qualey, Vulture, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of cops

Noun

Police said Edward Lawrence's wife told troopers that her son, 28-year-old Cody Lawrence, intervened in an ongoing argument between her and her husband and shot him.

— Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026
The suspect, identified by police as 39-year-old Chad Hickman, fled the scene before troopers arrived, prompting a manhunt.

— Reuters, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of troopers

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