probationer

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Recent Examples of probationer Field office staffing crisis To meet its staffing needs, Los Angeles County redeployed even more officers from its field offices to the juvenile halls in March, leaving fewer officers to supervise the tens of thousands of adult and juvenile probationers on community supervision. Jason Henry, Daily News, 3 May 2026 Similar protections would extend to students, probationers, and recipients of public assistance. Alonzo Martinez, Forbes.com, 13 Feb. 2026 And Massachusetts budgeted more than $5 million last fiscal year for the company to test probationers, according to public records. Alice Hines, ProPublica, 20 Jan. 2026 The offbeat 2002 film Cherish, for example, featured a claustrophobic probationer who repeatedly tries to defeat her electronic bracelet. Robert S. Gable, IEEE Spectrum, 20 July 2017 See All Example Sentences for probationer
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Noun
  • On the night of the primary election, holding hands with Montag, the mayoral candidate posed in glossy paparazzi-style photos.
    James Ward, USA Today, 4 June 2026
  • But for a Cy Young candidate who, as part of a six-man rotation, won’t pitch in as many games as his competition, efficiency matters.
    Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026
Noun
  • Bardem will play the role made famous by Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese’s 1991 film—that of a violent parolee determined to get revenge on the married lawyers who represented him at his trial, now played by Amy Adams and Patrick Wilson.
    Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 22 May 2026
  • Brown, a parolee with numerous run-ins with the law, reportedly has a history of mental illness, according to family members.
    Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The category with the most entrants on the list, by a large margin, was technology, with 20 list entrants.
    Mason Leib, ABC News, 4 June 2026
  • Researchers found that a sizable share of new entrants into the healthcare industry in recent years were previously outside of the labor force or pivoted from non-health occupations.
    Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 2 June 2026
Noun
  • Probably the beginning of his freshman year, hated him.
    Andrew Greif, NBC news, 4 June 2026
  • Chung, 14, a soon-to-be freshman at Lambert High School, birdied the final three holes at Athens Country Club to shoot 5-under 67 to finish 6-under 210.
    Stan Awtrey, AJC.com, 4 June 2026
Noun
  • Isak’s injury problems did not make things easier for the Swedish striker to settle while Florian Wirtz, another expensive attacking recruit at 116 million pounds, did not score his first goal until after Christmas.
    Mark Hodge, NBC news, 30 May 2026
  • Things take an odd turn for the young recruit as a mysterious virtual screen appears only to Seong-jae, assigning him a mission to cook for his fellow soldiers.
    Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
Noun
  • Then with one out in the sixth, Sheehan tried to work back from a first-pitch ball with a fastball up to Diamondbacks rookie Tommy Troy.
    Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2026
  • Their last release together came in 2024 through an Air Jordan 1 Low inspired by Michael’s rookie card, and an Air Jordan 6 collaboration expected to release last year never came to fruition.
    Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 2 June 2026
Noun
  • And a new feature called side-slip control enabled even novice drivers to slide through corners like Ken Block.
    Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 28 May 2026
  • To make the process even easier for novices, the M2 leverages AI to detect the type of materials inserted and automatically adjust the settings for cutting, engraving, or just scoring to make thinner materials easier to flex and fold.
    Andrew Liszewski, The Verge, 27 May 2026
Noun
  • There is a brevity and directness to Liden’s work that allows for easy entry.
    Erika Landström, Artforum, 2 June 2026
  • The pool and beach areas also have wheelchair-accessible entry points.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026

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“Probationer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/probationer. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.

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