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sergeant

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  • n  any of several noncommissioned officer ranks in the Army or Air Force or Marines ranking above a corporal
  • n  a lawman with the rank of sergeant
  • n  an English barrister of the highest rank

  • Army sergeants usually inspire fear.
  • FORT BRAGG, North Carolina: After just two hours of deliberations, a military jury unanimously convicted Army sergeant William Kreutzer of premeditated murder in a sniper attack .
  • The sergeant crouched down next to the thrashing terrorist, who tried to spit on him.
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  • Barack Obama in AFP
    Obama said he had phoned the arresting officer, Sergeant James Crowley, and expressed regret for "an impression that I was maligning the Cambridge police department or Sergeant Crowley specifically. I could have calibrated those words differently...
  • Henry Louis Gates in Washington Post
    It is "incumbent upon Sergeant Crowley and me to utilize the great opportunity that fate has given us to foster greater sympathy among the American public for the daily perils of policing on the one hand, and for the genuine fears of racial...
  • Frank Wuterich in North County Times
    As a sergeant and a squad leader, I am responsible for the decisions made to employ the tactics we used that day,Wuterich told Lt. Col. Paul Ware, the Marine officer who presided over his four-day hearing and will recommend whether he face...

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