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department

[dih-pahrt-muhnt] / dɪˈpɑrt mənt /




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Police shut down the train tracks, which are used by several lines, while the fire department conducted the rescue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026

Luna, his department and the county are involved in a bitter legal battle over access to records related to three use-of-force incidents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

It added that the missed opportunities, including a failure to escalate grossly abnormal X-ray findings, led it to introduce a clear escalation process within the radiology department for grossly abnormal and time-critical findings.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

He’s now seeking a second term running the nation’s largest sheriff’s department.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

As the 2000s progressed, however, consumer habits shifted away from department stores and malls, which triggered their eventual decline.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

He warned that many people would instead turn to already stretched GP surgeries and emergency departments.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

Intterra still is adding features to AwareCA and signing up more local fire departments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

"This decision recognizes more than two years of concrete, rigorous and coordinated work by all of the State’s authorities and departments," the head of Monaco's government, Christophe Mirmand, said in a statement.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Mr. Healey’s budget claims to find a way primarily by tightening spending in other government departments to free up cash.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Only in the mid-nineteenth century, after the growth of industrial cities and a rash of urban riots—after dread of the so-called dangerous classes surpassed dread of the state—did police departments emerge in the United States.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann


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