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- noun Plural form of
detective .
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Examples
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The etymologist Barry Popik, with fresh support from the phrase detectives Fred Shapiro and Gerald Cohen, has long been campaigning to give coinage honors to John J. Fitzgerald, a turf writer.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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The etymologist Barry Popik, with fresh support from the phrase detectives Fred Shapiro and Gerald Cohen, has long been campaigning to give coinage honors to John J. Fitzgerald, a turf writer.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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From my review: The interplay between the detectives is drolly portrayed, with Sigurdur Oli as smug and rigid as ever - until his own personal happiness is threatened - and Elinborg is obsessed with her cookery book which is being published and publicised in parallel with the investigation.
Reading Maxine 2009
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Soon, detectives from the Park Police and the D.C. police were converging on the scene, which would extend several hundred feet from where the skull was found.
The Crime Scene: Police testifty at Levy trial Henri Cauvin 2010
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Braintree officers who remember the 1986 shooting said that former police Chief John Polio dismissed detectives from the case and ordered the department to release Amy Bishop after a telephone conversation with former district attorney William Delahunt.
Rep. Bill Delahunt (D, MA): Why did you put murderer, Amy Bishop, back on the street? | RedState 2010
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The violence erupted after arrests earlier yesterday in connection with an inquiry into Ulster Volunteer Force murders originally carried out by the Historical Enquiries Team and now headed by detectives from the Northern Ireland police service.
Children 'as young as nine' involved in Belfast riots Henry McDonald 2010
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Soon, detectives from the Park Police and the D.C. police were converging on the scene, which would extend several hundred feet from where the skull was found.
Police testifty at Levy trial Washington Post editors 2010
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Their narrators are also the main detectives in their plots.
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Pope Cody (Mendelsohn), an armed robber on the run from a gang of renegade detectives, is in hiding, surrounded by his roughneck friends and family.
Animal Kingdom Movie Trailer: Australian Crime Hits Home | /Film 2010
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Their narrators are also the main detectives in their plots.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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