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

This sport has policed itself long before Ty Cobb went flying, spikes up, into second base.

From Washington Post • May 29, 2017

The British regular army has policed an empire and sent punitive expeditions against rebellious tribes with paucity of numbers, in a work which the British so well understand.

From My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form by Palmer, Frederick