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inspector

[in-spek-ter] / ɪnˈspɛk tər /


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"The news coming in is truly worrying. However... there is nothing I can actually do about it," Mohadese, a 27-year-old health inspector, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

And recently, the authority’s inspector general reported that the authority approved hundreds of thousands of dollars in wasteful travel expenses for four consulting firms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

“Oh, crap,” thought Stafford, a quality inspector at a machine shop in this East Texas city known as the Rose Capital of America.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

Residents of rural areas are waiting longer for everything from prescriptions to bills, a report published in September by the Postal Service’s inspector general said.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026

At a House subcommittee hearing in 1920, lawmakers combed through a report from a government inspector who had been sent to investigate the tribe’s spending habits, including those of Mollie’s family.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

The amendment also would make smaller changes to how the city governs, including giving more power to independent inspectors to conduct audits of the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

Mediators have floated offers including the release of some Iranian funds frozen overseas with interest in exchange for nuclear concessions such as allowing international inspectors, some of the mediators said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Medical safety inspectors described the site on Lister Lane as a "building site" and said there was evidence of people living there.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Environmental inspectors who rushed to two fires discovered 318 tonnes of toxic industrial dust that had been stored for months in a chrome factory, AlbChrome, with no transfer contracts for its treatment or safe disposal.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

They were not any of our regular workers, so they must have been supervisors or licensing inspectors.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter


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