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patrol

[puh-trohl] / pəˈtroʊl /




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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

Concerned Australian officials sent a patrol aircraft to monitor them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

A 32-year-old woman was struck and killed by a Los Angeles police patrol car late Saturday night as it responded to an emergency call at a Halloween party, according to authorities and news reports.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 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

Callaway stopped beside a large outcropping of rocks at the base of the mountain and turned to the security patrol.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

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

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

"We have increased patrols in the area and we are speaking to community leaders to provide further reassurance."

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

A much smaller police force continues to conduct patrols and respond to emergencies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Earlier this year, China’s coast guard stepped up patrols east of Taiwan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

She was stopped by two patrols and had to open all the food baskets, but the children’s contagious gaiety and the innocent contents of the baskets sent all suspicion flying.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

County to its knees in 2020; Luna held the role last year when the Eaton and Palisades fires ravaged vast swaths of the county, including unincorporated Altadena and Malibu — both patrolled by his department.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

It had been decades since sharks last patrolled the reef off the coast of Fiji's Naidiri Village, but they returned this year following a community-led effort to protect the fishery and plant thousands of corals.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

Pictures on Saturday showed the coastline being patrolled by a police boat and helicopter.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 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

A Greek trireme patrolled just offshore, but it didn’t seem to have noticed their arrival.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

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

Federal troops were patrolling Mekelle and manning key institutions on Sunday, a local journalist told AFP, as communications were restored for the first time in more than a week.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

The film balances its attention equally between Mariam’s family and the Marines patrolling the area.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 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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