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police

[puh-lees] / pəˈlis /


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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

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“It is great to see…the fans being policed according to their behavior, not an outdated reputation,” said chief constable Mark Roberts, head of the UKFPU.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

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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