sloot
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of sloot
from Afrikaans, from Dutch sluit, sluis sluice
Example Sentences
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Lawyers for Murdaugh said an FBI agent who conducted a polygraph test asked Murdaugh if he could keep a secret, then confided he had just examined notorious Dutch killer Joran van der Sloot.
From Seattle Times
For three hours Joran van der Sloot was questioned — first by his own attorney and then by FBI agents — about what happened to Holloway, said Mark White, an attorney representing Natalee’s father, Dave Holloway.
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“Chilling,” White said of watching and listening to van der Sloot’s account.
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The plea deal required van der Sloot to make a proffer — providing information about what he knew about the crime — and to let her parents witness the statement in “real time.”
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Van der Sloot then had to take a polygraph exam to test the truthfulness of his account, according to court documents.
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