patrolman

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Recent Examples of patrolman After Shannon and Maggie’s deaths, Dennis Police Department Police Chief John Brady issued a statement on behalf of patrolman John Hubbard. Charna Flam, People.com, 21 Mar. 2025 Yet Feeley kept his badge; he was simply demoted to patrolman after serving a mere 45-day suspension. Marc J. Dunkelman, TIME, 27 Feb. 2025 Caught in the middle of this controversy was Deputy Keith Farquhar, then a young patrolman. Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2025 Once in the governor's office, the future president quickly changed the complexion of the state workforce, placing Blacks in 40 percent of influential positions, including boosting their number on Georgia boards from three to 53 and appointing the first Black state patrolman. David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for patrolman
Recent Examples of Synonyms for patrolman
Noun
  • But Europe cannot take the United States’ place as the world’s policeman.
    Oona A. Hathaway, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Should a birthright citizen not be held accountable for running a red light because local cops don’t have jurisdiction?
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 14 July 2025
  • The cops were surprisingly, ostentatiously polite when the time came—when they were done waiting.
    Clare Sestanovich, New Yorker, 13 July 2025
Noun
  • Brown joined Scott Free in 2010, was promoted to chief operating officer in 2012, and has served as president and COO since 2021.
    Justin Kroll, Deadline, 14 July 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Mendenhall stared back at the lawman and shrugged his shoulders.
    Tim Evans, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
  • Sheridan saw it in 1883, when Marshal Jim Courtright turned from amiable lawman to stone killer in a barroom full of bad hombres.
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • Meanwhile, back at the Marine Mammal Care Center, the scientific detective work is about to begin.
    NPR Staff, NPR, 8 July 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • That's perhaps because Hatch, the former Center Township constable, was removed from office in October 2024 after pleading guilty to felony official misconduct.
    Ryan Murphy, IndyStar, 20 June 2025
  • The constable said Eichner was rushed to Causeway Hospital but died from her injuries a short time later.
    Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 15 June 2025
Noun
  • Anyone along creeks, streams and the Guadalupe River should seek higher ground, the sheriff's office said.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 5 July 2025
  • He was shot down by a sheriff’s posse in Oklahoma in 1911.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2025

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“Patrolman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patrolman. Accessed 20 Jul. 2025.

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