gendarme
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Outside, TV crews stood at the ready and a comedian dressed as a gendarme sold “genuine fake Swiss passports.”
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025
“Closed. You’ll have to walk around,” a French gendarme had just told them, gesturing towards the south.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2024
Wright also added that a gendarme caught on film with a firearm would be identified and prosecuted.
From Reuters ● Oct. 21, 2022
He has passed tests to become a gendarme and hopes not to be sentenced, to keep a clean record.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 22, 2021
On most nights, the people stayed at the site long after this gendarme had gone and told stories to one another beneath the big blank screen.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
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Nearly 16,000 French police, gendarmes, troops, firefighters and border guards will be deployed, using boats, motorcycles and drones, alongside mounted police and dog-handling units, France's Haute-Savoie regional prefecture said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026
But justice officials and gendarmes acted so slowly that over the next nine months Barella was not even contacted.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
"In 20 years, and despite the resolute efforts of our police officers, gendarmes, judges, teachers and elected officials, the antisemitic hydra has kept advancing," he said.
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
At first the gendarmes declined to intervene and stood watching from the shore.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2025
Two young gendarmes pile them into the back of a truck and drive up the narrow street and across the causeway and are gone.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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