cop
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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
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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
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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
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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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