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suspects

  • plural
    of suspect.
    suspect
    verb (used with object)
    to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof.
  • present tense form
    of suspect (3rd person singular).
    suspect
    verb (used with object)
    to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof.

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Police investigating ongoing home burglaries in the still-rebuilding Palisades have been able to identify suspects, she said, in part because license plate readers frequently capture the getaway vehicles used by burglars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

This is the first time that anyone has been charged over the incident at RAF Fairford, after police arrested seven suspects in the days afterwards, before releasing them on bail.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

King Abdullah II praised security forces for chasing the suspects "to the very end".

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

In Britain, the charismatic Todd embraces his special envoy status with verve even as he suspects he’s out of his depth.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

J/C is down the hall, like forty feet away, and I don’t know for the life of me how Sarah suspects something out there that I couldn’t see at point-blank range.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini