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cop

[kop] / kɒp /


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Tom Berenger plays a married Queens cop assigned to protect wealthy Manhattan murder witness Mimi Rogers, while a pre-”Sopranos” Lorraine Bracco portrays the wife he leaves waiting at home.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

A former military test pilot turned space cop, Jordan knows he’s good at his job and has grown used to doing things his way.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

He’s an itinerant cop who once had a regular job; something went wrong and now he’s a permanent temp.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

That was all inarguably true, and the guy has form, as they say on British cop shows.

From Salon Aug. 2, 2026

Rawiya guided Moss forward to their friends, and as she did so, Moss turned his head around to see Mr. Jacobs speaking to the cop, who remained as still and passive as before.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro

Laura Overdeck arrived on the scene at one point and told cops she wanted her soon-to-be ex gone, the Post reported.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

The 69-year-old New Orleans native has never wavered in his claims of innocence, insisting since his 1977 arrest that the cops had the wrong guy.

From Salon Aug. 10, 2026

In other cases reported in US media, cops used Flock to track women who had abortions -- illegal in several US states.

From Barron's Aug. 9, 2026

The killers of "hero" PC Andrew Harper are due to be released and the red-top reports that Prime Minister Andy Burnham could be taken to court by "furious cops".

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

For a Sunday morning, there's a heck of a lot of cops milling about Underhill.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon

Tuchel not only had to deal with a "shocked and gutted" Maguire after he learned of his exclusion from England's World Cup, he also copped a blast from his "absolutely disgusted" mother Zoe.

From BBC May 22, 2026

Outside of a few exceptions, substantial shares of college students in all disciplines have copped to ChatGPT-ing their way through school.

From Slate May 20, 2026

Peter Attia, the longevity guru and bestselling author who recently resigned from CBS when his sophomoric banter with Epstein came to light, copped to his blind attraction to power.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 20, 2026

I could have copped it for a couple of days but it went on for five days.

From Barron's Jan. 2, 2026

Rather than humiliate myself, I copped to it.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

Perhaps she considers it a dramatic cheat, as though the writer were copping out of the hard work of dramatization.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 8, 2025

South African lock Lood de Jager will miss the rest of the Autumn Series of internationals after copping a four-match ban for a no-arms tackle a win over France at the weekend.

From Barron's Nov. 11, 2025

Hugh got involved when he got "fed up with farmers copping a lot of flak" about their emissions.

From BBC Feb. 5, 2025

“He was just copping some Z’s for 10 minutes,” Racki told me with a laugh in 2016.

From Seattle Times Apr. 11, 2024

You know, check the place out—make sure ain't no badges copping some z's in the back.

From "Monster" by Walter Dean Myers




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