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patrol

[puh-trohl] / pəˈtroʊl /




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Although questions were previously raised about her perceived lack of leadership experience, Tingirides has been in charge of the department’s Office of Operations, which oversees virtually all patrol personnel, for more than a year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

Police had parked patrol cars and mobile vans as well as set up two tents near the entrance to the road, in preparation for crowd control.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

A J-15 jet fighter launched from one of them tailed a Japanese patrol craft for 40 minutes, at one point coming within a horizontal distance of 150 feet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

The patrol car was from the LAPD’s North Hollywood Division and was responding to an emergency call in the Van Nuys Division, Orozco said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026

The Maddox had been on a routine patrol, he insisted, no different from patrols carried out by American ships every day, all over the world.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

Central Command, said the U.S. maintained its patrols through the narrow waterway, which before the conflict was the conduit for 20% of the world’s oil supplies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

They said no-one was present when patrols were in the area.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

Mercado's former colleagues tell him that during their patrols, things are "very quiet."

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

Elizabeth Strater, director of strategic campaigns and national vice president of UFW, said farmworkers began reporting the immigration enforcement patrols on Oct.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

From the first of May when the first eggs get laid until Halloween night when the last of them hatches, turtle patrols walk assigned stretches of beach.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg

Public transport was operating and a few shops were open, while pro-government forces patrolled the streets.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

He brought with him perhaps 60,000 soldiers, along with numerous cannons, some of enormous size, to besiege the city; a newly constructed fleet patrolled the Bosporus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

I drove to my job at a middle school, where more legal observers patrolled outside.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

Whereas the Indian Ocean is heavily patrolled by the European Union Naval Force, which oversees anti-piracy operations in Somalia, the Gulf of Aden is more lightly protected.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

In a concrete courtyard patrolled by armed guards, Daniel Ellsberg sat talking with Randy Kehler, the antiwar activist whose words had so inspired him.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

"But they are still patrolling for cancer over 70 days out -- and they're still very functional."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026

Monowara, 35, a garment worker in Gazipur, said large numbers of police officers were still patrolling the area.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

Material that he was working on a reality show that promises to take viewers behind the scenes of patrolling the city’s streets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

ICE had been patrolling the neighborhood, he told me, and when the man drove away from the shop with his vehicle fixed, there were five cars on him within a minute.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026

Kennedy and his crew had been patrolling passages in the Solomon Islands of the South Pacific, one of many World War II battlegrounds between the United States and Japan.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin


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