police
noun
an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
has policed
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present perfectof police (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Traditionally, the FTC has policed health care by challenging local or regional hospital mergers that have the potential to reduce competition and raise prices.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2024
The red eventually faded to pink and back to tan, but ever since, the county has policed movie crews, and fined and banished those that alter so much as a pebble.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2022
The OPP is the largest force in the province and it has policed occupation-type protests in the past, including on indigenous lands.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2022
Yet the league has policed its owners inconsistently, in part because the circumstances around allegations that have surfaced have widely varied.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2020
He has policed the world and parked it, reduced the dangers of life and limb, made the tenure of existence less precarious, and rendered a general relapse of society impossible.
From Revolution, and Other Essays by Jack London
