DEA
1 Americanabbreviation
Example Sentences
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"We are investigating with the DEA, we are exchanging information."
From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026
The DEA is supporting the Bolivian government as it conducts "reliability" screens on anti-narcotics officers using polygraph lie detectors.
From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026
But an undercover DEA investigation targeting Honduras’s government, led by the agency’s elite Special Operations Division, unexpectedly ensnared the nephews.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
When DEA agents flew Nicolás Maduro to New York to face narcoterrorism charges, beside him was his wife, Cilia Flores.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
By 2000, the DEA had directly trained more than 25,000 officers in forty-eight states in Pipeline tactics and helped to develop training programs for countless municipal and state law enforcement agencies.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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