patrol
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The Navy is helping to patrol Nato's northern flank, with this year's carrier strike group deploying to the Arctic and the high north.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
The DEC also released other calls between the agency and other departments, including the police and highway patrol.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
The other 16 crew members were rescued by border guard patrol boats.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
Navy P-8A Poseidon at Keflavik Air Base, one of the maritime patrol aircraft that rotate through Iceland to hunt and track submarines across the North Atlantic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
A German policeman has turned onto the street, on patrol, walking straight toward us.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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Earlier this year, China’s coast guard stepped up patrols east of Taiwan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
There also were patrols, detectives and special investigators.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Fire patrols and operations are from about 10 am to 1 pm, "then working at home again until night", she said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
“We are stepping up patrols of the property to be safe,” Duron said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
Most of the patrols going out were Vietnamese, and Johnson said that he didn’t think most of them were really patrolling.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
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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
As an experienced water user, Todd had given them advice on safety, including swimming between the red and yellow flags marking the area patrolled by lifeguards.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
I drove to my job at a middle school, where more legal observers patrolled outside.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Guards, walking two abreast, patrolled the inside perimeter of the fence.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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The film balances its attention equally between Mariam’s family and the Marines patrolling the area.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
To be fair, I don’t know how a quiet-phone rule is supposed to be enforced, short of officers patrolling trains all day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Dani Gibson, Freya Kemp and Linsey Smith – three fielders who often share the job of patrolling the boundary – practise their high catches or sprints to retrieve and return the ball.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
And he has been patrolling the skies and the lawns since 2008, ruling the roost at the centuries old site.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
Before the boat docks, the captain lowers the gangplank, hails a legionnaire patrolling nearby, and relieves him of his horse.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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