police
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Nepali police urged all rescuers to "immediately move to a safe location", saying they had received information that "a water dam has burst again on the Tibetan side".
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
Nepal's police announced a new death toll of at least 547 people.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
Dozens of calls and complaints were made to L.A. city departments and police, he said, but went unaddressed — with officials telling him they couldn’t go inside the private property.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Jurgen de Landsheer is aware that police alone will not solve this crisis.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
“Really,” she said disgustedly, “if the cute janitor wanted to warn you, he should have provided a few more details. Names, dates—something you could go to the police with.”
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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The company has faced scrutiny over how it polices content and users on its site, who in theory must be 18 or over.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026
“Not all term polices have conversion features,” Harrison said.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 13, 2026
“Who polices the streets? Who secures the weapons and military installations and nuclear sites? Who patrols the border with Iraq and Afghanistan? The protesters?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026
It polices remedies and the finality of convictions, not the enforceability of unconstitutional laws going forward.
From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2026
As Uncle Sam polices the two Americas, and John Bull the seas of the world, so the Mikado undertakes to police the sea lanes of the Orient.
From The Canadian Commonwealth by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
Compliance would be policed for 10 years by an independent auditor chosen jointly by Meta and the states, and paid for by the company.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
It was the era of “Urban Cowboy” and purity was being policed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
“It is great to see…the fans being policed according to their behavior, not an outdated reputation,” said chief constable Mark Roberts, head of the UKFPU.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
And as the pit-lane speed limit is policed by the time taken to pass through a series of timing loops over a specific distance, that meant the drivers were wrongly penalised.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
Although the Food and Drug Administration permits no residues of pesticides in milk, its restrictions are not only inadequately policed but they apply solely to interstate shipments.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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Legislators advanced bills, backed by California’s powerful trial lawyer trade group, aimed at policing the state’s legal industry, which has been bruised by ‘a wave of inappropriate attorney conduct’ highlighted by The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
In January, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said plans to overhaul policing services would not see the Welsh government given new powers.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
How does bias enter algorithms used in policing?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
But policing the market is hard because much of the industry isn’t regulated and transactions can be anonymous.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
By the time of Anna’s death, the informal system of citizen policing had been displaced, but vestiges of it remained, especially in places that still seemed to exist on the periphery of geography and history.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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