blotter
Example Sentences
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He grew up in Latrobe, Penn., and got his start in journalism writing the police blotter for his local paper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026
Meneley’s shooting is the first shooting by SPD officers in eight months and the first fatal one in 23 months, the blotter post says.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2024
This arrangement—the “four-way”—would recur throughout the history of blotter.
From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2024
A woman in her 40s driving northbound on Elliott Avenue West hit the man in the 600 block of the road before 6 p.m., police said in an online blotter post.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
He did not have to rest his hands on the blotter, and stare in front of him at her writing on the pigeon-holes.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
