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suspect

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




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Police have named the suspect as 21-year-old Abdul B and have released an image of him.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

The suspect has been arrested and the victims were expected to survive, police said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

But authorities boast that the state has lately become a model for reducing mob mayhem — an assertion that many find suspect.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 26, 2026

Police issued a wanted notice for the 21-year-old suspect, identified under German privacy rules as Abdul B., warning the public not to approach him because he may be armed and dangerous.

From Salon Jul. 26, 2026

Despite Dasch's weak stomach, the unnamed man told Kappe that Dasch was a wonderful prospect because he looked and acted like an American, so no one would ever suspect Dasch of working for the Germans.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

The university suspects foul play, and said its Division of Public Safety & Security had been dispatched to investigate.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

In 2024, he was working in deer management on an estate where he suspects the dead hares had been killed.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

It was unclear to investigators how many suspects were involved.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

All this happens after Zack turns up with a missing toe, which Anna suspects Max orchestrated.

From Salon Jul. 17, 2026

"That's very kind, Mrs. Taylor”—Ewan's excuse was seamless—"but my mother's birthday dinners run to military precision. If she suspects me of dawdling, it'll be the execution squad at dawn.”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

The Daily Telegraph says Iran has been sending suspected covert operatives across the Channel after individuals with links to Tehran's intelligence agencies were intercepted by UK authorities on small boats.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

Police told AFP the suspected vehicle was later found abandoned a few hundred metres from the heart of the festivities in Tiergarten park.

From Barron's Jul. 25, 2026

Because this type of multipoint investigation is reactive, the product that’s suspected of causing the illness may have already moved through the supply chain into stores or restaurants and has already been consumed.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

Public-health officials that night had notified the chain that the shredded lettuce garnishing Crunchwrap Supremes, Cantina Chicken Burritos and other menu items was the suspected culprit in a rapidly expanding cyclospora outbreak.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Only now I suspected Gran knew more than she let on, but for some reason, she wanted to keep it from me.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

People outside Wall Street will probably say they don’t know, while those who work in finance, suspecting a trap, may hedge their bets.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 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

Elen began suspecting she had endometriosis after watching other people talk about it on TikTok, yet the full extent of her complex condition came to light in a "terrifying" way.

From BBC Nov. 2, 2025

This policy, she explains, “tramples the constitutional requirement that officers must have a particularized and objective basis for suspecting the particular person stopped of criminal activity.”

From Slate Sep. 8, 2025

That gave Alba greater freedom for her traffic in fugitives and greater safety for bringing people in, and taking them out of the house before curfew, without her grandfather suspecting.

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




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