policeman
Americannoun
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See -man.
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According to family lore, my policeman grandfather was on duty at Yankee Stadium on the evening of June 22, 1938, when he started chatting with a man from out of town.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026
The gentle Douglas Gilmour—legal guardian of Patience and a colleague of her late policeman father—is reprised by the very welcome Adrian Rawlins.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
What Lily couldn’t have foreseen, of course, was that her amateur detective skills would become necessary when, one day, George is found dead, and the investigation by a bumbling local policeman isn’t up to snuff.
From Salon • May 25, 2026
"The policeman said to me: 'What do you expect us to do, because if we see them on the bike we can't chase them? If they fall off they could hurt themselves'," he says.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
Finally a police car had stopped, and a policeman had changed the tire.
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
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