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
Spain expelled another deserter, Mohamed Abdellah, a dissident gendarme, to Algeria last August.
From Seattle Times ● May 27, 2022
Mali's gendarme police force said Ms Pétronin was reportedly in the Sikasso area, close to Mali's south-eastern border with Burkina Faso.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2021
Dinghies used by migrants to try to cross the channel are seen at the French gendarme brigade in Marquise, France, August 20, 2020.
From Reuters ● Jul. 23, 2021
After the news, a gendarme would come and turn off the television set, taking home the key.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
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"The gendarmes knocked on every door," said Boisvert, adding they left by car with their two children, aged five and two.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
Nearly 6,000 police and gendarmes have been deployed for security during the celebrations on Sunday.
From Barron's ● May 31, 2026
He said around 250,000 people drew a living from the trade in France – more than the entire number of police and gendarmes, which is 230,000.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2025
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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