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Recent Examples of inspector
Senior Iranian officials have acknowledged serious damage to the sites, but international inspectors have not yet been given access to fully assess the situation.
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Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 July 2025
Michelin’s California Guide is published each year, highlighting the state’s best restaurants according to the company’s team of anonymous inspectors.
—Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2025
To learn that, the United States has to ensure ongoing access to nuclear sites by the International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors ( the Iranian parliament has moved a bill to suspend cooperation with the IAEA).
—Vali Nasr, Time, 26 June 2025
Although water board inspectors originally found high levels of ammonium-nitrate and phosphorus at the egg ranch, later tests found almost no contaminants after the facility began putting all of the egg wash wastewater into temporary holding tanks and hauling it offsite.
—Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2025
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Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 July 2025
Michelin’s California Guide is published each year, highlighting the state’s best restaurants according to the company’s team of anonymous inspectors.
—Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2025
To learn that, the United States has to ensure ongoing access to nuclear sites by the International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors ( the Iranian parliament has moved a bill to suspend cooperation with the IAEA).
—Vali Nasr, Time, 26 June 2025
Although water board inspectors originally found high levels of ammonium-nitrate and phosphorus at the egg ranch, later tests found almost no contaminants after the facility began putting all of the egg wash wastewater into temporary holding tanks and hauling it offsite.
—Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inspector
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The victim’s relatives showed detectives a photo of Ackerman and the victim in the same area the victim’s body had been located, according to an affidavit.—
Caroline Zimmerman
July 7,
Kansas City Star,
8 July 2025
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Meanwhile, back at the Marine Mammal Care Center, the scientific detective work is about to begin.—
NPR Staff,
NPR,
8 July 2025
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But in Hartig’s formal response posted to the body’s website on Wednesday, July 9, Hartig revealed her own bevy of concerns with judicial investigators and county prosecutors alike.—
Darcie Moran,
Freep.com,
11 July 2025
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Maya Lau, an investigative journalist and financial investigator, hosts the podcast.—
Anne Easton,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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Bondi has faced pressure after first release fell short of expectations Epstein’s crimes, high-profile connections and jailhouse suicide have made the case a magnet for conspiracy theorists and online sleuths seeking proof of a coverup.—
Alanna Durkin Richer,
Chicago Tribune,
1 July 2025
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Bondi has faced pressure after first release fell short of expectations Epstein’s crimes, high-profile connections and jailhouse suicide have made the case a magnet for conspiracy theorists and online sleuths seeking proof of a cover-up.—
Eric Tucker,
Los Angeles Times,
1 July 2025
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The Tamir Rice Foundation was established by Samaria Rice, mother of Tamir, after the murder of her son by Timothy Loehmann, a patrolman with the Cleveland Division of Police, in 2014.—
Lawrence Dow,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
26 June 2025
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Initially, the Morris County Prosecutor's Office said patrolmen from law enforcement saw the drones.—
Saleen Martin,
USA TODAY,
13 Dec. 2024
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Rescuers from several agencies subsequently responded to the scene and proceeded to search for Figueiredo, whose body was found and recovered from the reservoir at about 9:30 p.m., according to the sheriff's office.—
Emily Mae Czachor
July 15,
CBS News,
15 July 2025
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At that point, 911 was called, and dozens of emergency responders searched the reservoir until the man’s body was found at approximately 9:30 p.m. that evening, the sheriff’s office said.—
Sam Gillette,
People.com,
15 July 2025
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According to the motion, ICE officers were apparently looking for one of Orozco’s sons, who is decades younger but has the same name.—
Laura Rodríguez Presa,
Chicago Tribune,
14 July 2025
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Hot Topic Beth Deane, chief legal officer for Electric Hydrogen, on the survival of federal hydrogen tax credits in Trump’s budget bill The outlook for the 45V federal credit seemed grim in the new budget but it was maintained in the final version.—
Alan Ohnsman,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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She was also found guilty of disorderly conduct for supposedly trying to seduce an undercover policewoman named Margaret Leonard, who’d been assigned to entrap her.—
Kellie B. Gormly,
Smithsonian Magazine,
26 June 2025
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Historians have long debated which pioneer in the field of women’s policing holds the title of the U.S.’s first policewoman, as opposed to police matron.—
Peter Zablocki,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 Mar. 2025
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But Europe cannot take the United States’ place as the world’s policeman.—
Oona A. Hathaway,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
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Israel’s strikes on Iran and Tehran’s retaliation, which appeared to catch many world leaders unawares, is the latest sign of a more volatile world as Trump seeks to withdraw the U.S. from its role as world policeman.—
Rob Gillies,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2025
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