peace officers

plural of peace officer

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for peace officers
Noun
  • Officials said that residents, prisoners and police officers were seeking refuge at a Black River police station.
    Matt Nighswander, NBC news, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The city of Little Rock has reached an agreement with police officers and sergeants to extend a union agreement through 2027, according to a news release issued Friday.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The measure would provide $45 billion to expand ICE’s detention capacity to nearly 100,000 beds, $14 billion for transportation and removal operations and $8 billion to hire 10,000 new deportation officers.
    Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Indeed, my former agency the NGA is charged with both making maps (the job of explorers) and uncovering what’s really going on in those places (the job of intelligence officers).
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Plan for new Palestinian police Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty says his country is training some 5,000 new Palestinian policemen for Gaza.
    NPR, NPR, 16 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • The plan also suggests that Palestinian police forces would be trained and supervised by the International Stabilization Force and stationed in the Gaza Strip.
    Asher Kaufman, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2025
  • In fact, the president claimed that one of Kirk's final messages to him was a plea to bring his anti-crime strategies — including federalizing local police forces and deploying the National Guard — to Chicago next.
    Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2025
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“Peace officers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peace%20officers. Accessed 2 Nov. 2025.

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