criminals

Example Sentences

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"Any witness, whether a reporter or otherwise, who has information about these criminals should not be surprised if they receive a subpoena about the illegal leaking of classified material," he added.

From Barron's • May 12, 2026

“Some folks are saying ‘I like the idea of going after criminals, but I don’t like the school raids and targeting grandmothers.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

“They were patients. And they were failed—first by a corporation that valued revenue over life and then, in many cases, by a system that treated them as criminals rather than as people in medical crisis.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

A pirate attack off Somalia is the work of a new group of "opportunistic criminals", security officials said on Tuesday, complicating a threat that costs the shipping industry billions of dollars.

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026

Devised by the French criminologist Alphonse Bertillon in 1879, it was the first scientific method for identifying repeat criminals.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann