Adjective We had to do some detective work to find out who used to own the property. He enjoys reading detective novels. Noun She is a detective on the police force. Detective Sgt. Lee is working on the case. She hired a detective to follow her husband.
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Their research, which attracted widespread coverage in preprint before being published in its final form last week, reads as much like a detective report as an academic study.Wired, 5 Aug. 2022 The gym-fit Paulides, who moved from California to Colorado in part for the skiing, is right out of central casting for a detective film. Jon Billman, Outside Online, 13 Mar. 2017 Godwin had stumbled on a question asked by writers of detective fiction and psychological suspense ever since: Who can the hero really trust? Martin Edwards, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2022 Anonymous tips can be left on the detective tip line. I.c. Murrell, Arkansas Online, 4 Aug. 2022 At home, Vlad’s father was engaged in a frantic, detective-like pursuit of his son. Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 16 July 2022 Anyone with information on the truck or driver who left the scene is asked to call the dispatch center at 870-541-5300 or the detective office at 870-730-2090. Pine Bluff Commercial, Arkansas Online, 3 July 2022 Almost overnight, Buryak, head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, was thrust into a frantic, detective-like pursuit, scrambling for clues, trying to figure out where Russian soldiers were holding his son, and how to get him back. Paulina Villegas And Reis Thebault, Anchorage Daily News, 20 June 2022 Elise King is champing at the bit to return to her day job as a detective inspector with the major crime team. Mary Cadden, USA TODAY, 15 June 2022
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On the day of his arrest, DiPrima reached out to the undercover detective and agreed to go to a location to meet, according to officials. Caroline Silva, ajc, 9 Sep. 2022 Anyone with information is asked to call 704-432-TIPS and speak directly to a Homicide Unit detective. Elaine Aradillas, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2022 In Virginia, a police detective applied for a geofence warrant three weeks after the bank robbery, which was granted by a Chesterfield County magistrate judge. Ramon Padilla, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2022 Louisville detective Kelly Goodlett will plead guilty to one count of conspiring to violate the civil rights of Breonna Taylor . Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2022 Glasgow police detective Jack Laidlaw between 1977 and 1991. Tom Nolan, WSJ, 29 July 2022 Authorities are asking those with information to contact (704) 432-TIPS and speak directly to a homicide unit detective. Amanda Taylor, PEOPLE.com, 16 July 2022 The detective called on the public to submit tips on the vehicle to police. Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 1 June 2022 To set him on this journey, Pyre, reportedly a composite character, is rendered as more than a touch naive about the people around him, whose gravest sins and darkest impulses shouldn’t come as a surprise to a detective.Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2022 See More