frisk
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“We have a law that’s used for something akin to stop and frisk and punishes people for living in areas without safe infrastructure,” said Hester Serebrin, policy director for the Transportation Choices Coalition.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
White was with the unit because she could do things — such as frisk women wearing burqas — that men couldn’t.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2023
He began his career as a lawyer before being elected to the New York state legislature, where he championed affordable housing and worked on policing issues, notably the controversial practice known as "stop and frisk."
From Reuters ● Nov. 18, 2022
When I visited this May, I was able to walk straight into The main building without having to state my business or undergo more than a light frisk.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2022
“Not in a moving vehicle,” the soldier says as he begins to frisk us.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
Stop and frisks wouldn’t end, but Newark would have to fight crime without the rampant police stops the department had used for years.
From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2021
The landmark case found that the Fourth Amendment is not violated when a police officer stops a suspect on the street and frisks them without probable cause.
From Fox News ● Feb. 11, 2020
Later, a masked agent frisks the same suspect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2015
A guard frisks each man before they enter the first in a series of locked doors that will take them to the lower yard.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 11, 2015
During the exit frisks, we’d find waffles stuffed inside pants and shirts.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
Police stopped, questioned and frisked those suspected of carrying weapons or casing a business, dissuading the ill-intentioned from packing guns while reducing shootings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
The luggage is scanned and people are sometimes frisked before accessing the boarding lounge.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2024
As the lights came up, an old man dozed while a teenage boy and girl frisked nearby in an unconvincing body of water.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2024
He was detained and frisked by officers based on the sheriff’s call to dispatchers.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2022
The graceful creature paid no attention to the wolves, but frisked gaily at the old man’s side.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
Nervous students were met with biometric identification checks, metal detectors, armoured patrols and frisking at exam centres on Sunday morning.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
The match has been designated a "high-risk" clash, with police enforcing special rules such as preventative frisking.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2025
The TV audience’s response to the bit — which carried on into frisking presenters Josh Brolin and Jason Momoa per the Academy’s “protocol” — was mixed on Twitter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2022
After a brief verbal frisking — it was weird to have a reporter drop in — the group was friendly and happy to answer questions.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2021
And hundreds of Cloud-Men’s children were frisking about all over the place and shrieking with laughter and sliding down the billows of the cloud on toboggans.
From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
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