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suspect

[suh-spekt, suhs-pekt, suhs-pekt, suh-spekt] / səˈspɛkt, ˈsʌs pɛkt, ˈsʌs pɛkt, səˈspɛkt /




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I suspect the lineup will change dramatically next year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

The apartment where the suspect lived was quiet, with the balcony curtains drawn.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

He followed the teenager into a classroom, where he saw a teacher fighting with the suspect.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

She says officers told her they knew the likely suspect, who had recently been released from prison, but they had been unable to prove it was him.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

“What I suspect, from what most American officials say here, is that it’ll be a long war.”

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

Nottinghamshire Police said the officer had approached two suspects in Angel Row shortly before the incident at 04:50 BST on Sunday.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Charges for the other two suspects, Marquis Davis, 38, and Antoine Washington, 36, have not been announced because they are not in custody in San Francisco, police said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

Within hours, officers recovered all three vehicles and arrested three suspects, including one they believe had been in charge of the other two.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

The two key suspects include a 29-year-old, who was charged after investigators recovered DNA from a bag left behind during the getaway.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

Mr. van Hoeven obviously suspects we’re here, because he always delivers the potatoes at lunchtime.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

At first, the researchers suspected that the mummified dog might have been buried relatively recently, perhaps around 50 years earlier during the period of looting.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

He suspected they’d be neither—his field had been using machine translation since the 1950s.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

The UN says another 201,000 people have been displaced and that there has been an alarming surge in suspected cholera cases.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

But "there were no opportunities to excavate" the suspected sites, he told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

And they suspected that if the opportunity to double-cross the mission presented itself, Haupt would seize the chance.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

He’d been stunned by his star’s nearly centurylong sentence and came away from a review of the case suspecting that Walters may have been wrongfully convicted.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Still, it’s worth noting that Sink’s role has been the subject of much speculation, with fans suspecting she would play Marvel-verse X-Men telekinetic and telepath Jean Grey.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

Movies rarely venture so far into the hearts of ordinary people trying to do their best but suspecting they have made a great many irreparable mistakes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

When you start suspecting that your position might be terminated, it’s easy to mentally check out.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026

Lettie said as if considering him the Rattler was akin to suspecting Santa Claus.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool


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