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
Officers Adam Fowler and Nick French were identified as the officers who opened fire, according to the blotter post.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 24, 2024
This arrangement—the “four-way”—would recur throughout the history of blotter.
From Slate • Apr. 17, 2024
Petty Officer Powell kept an immaculate desk—a calendar blotter, twin upright pen stands, a nearly full ashtray, a telephone.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
