inspectors

plural of inspector

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Noun
  • In mid-2020, investigators had a major breakthrough.
    T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Since Speight was located, his parents have refused to cooperate with investigators, Woods said.
    Mitchell Willetts, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • During his confession, Jones said the Nestors hired him to clean around their business — and told detectives what led up to the killings.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Yan Wang allegedly arrived at the home as police were doing their initial investigation and spoke with detectives, claiming to be a friend and colleague of Howard Wang’s, authorities said.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • At the same time, social media sleuths shared inaccurate information and a man was detained after allegedly trying to drive through a barricade near the church.
    Dave Boucher, Freep.com, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The video quickly spread online, with sleuths tying the pair back to a tech company whose CEO resigned in the fallout.
    Melina Khan, USA Today, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In 2019, Newton allegedly beat and used a stun gun on a teenager, along with three other officers.
    Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Structural shifts Unlike previous generations of technology, where bespoke automation tools had to be made for every distinct job, LLM Suite can service them all, from traders to wealth managers and risk officers, according to Waldron.
    Hugh Son, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Today’s policed are tomorrow’s policemen.
    Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Two policemen were injured and the driver was killed, police confirmed, after the vehicle landed in a ditch.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Together, O’Neill and Alicia navigate a rabbit hole of deranged folk singers, psychotic cops, boxing promoters, line dancing enthusiasts, and worst of all, podcasters, the truth blurs, bodies stack, and the nature of their search comes into question.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Eventually, though, the cops find video of Maya — the victim from the top of the hour — looking very out of it as a man leads her away from the club’s main room.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But then, the state police were called in because the mall didn’t have enough security—that’s my understanding—so state troopers came in and shut it down.
    Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The cult hit comedy franchise Super Troopers revolves around the shenanigans of a group of Vermont state troopers who are slacker pranksters first and foremost.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2025
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“Inspectors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inspectors. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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