military police

noun

: a branch of an army that exercises guard and police functions

Examples of military police in a Sentence

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Governor Gavin Newsom has deployed the California National Guard and military police to LA County to protect residents from looters, arsonists, and other criminal opportunists. John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025 Much of her work had been devoted to indigenous rights, but her lifelong pursuit of justice was personal: her former husband and Marcelo’s father, Rubens Paiva, an engineer and former congressman, was arrested by military police and forcibly disappeared on Jan. 20, 1971. Alexander Durie, TIME, 7 Jan. 2025 Besides her time in politics, Gabbard was in the National Guard and deployed during the Iraq War with a field medical unit and later returned to the Middle East as an officer to lead a military police platoon and as a trainer for the Kuwait National Guard's counterterrorism unit. Joyce Orlando, The Tennessean, 14 Nov. 2024 More than 7,000 active-duty troops were sent to Texas, Arizona and California, including military police, an assault helicopter battalion, various communications, medical and headquarters units, combat engineers, planners and public affairs units. Lolita C. Baldor and Tara Copp, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for military police 

Word History

First Known Use

1815, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of military police was in 1815

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“Military police.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/military%20police. Accessed 12 Feb. 2025.

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military police

noun
: a branch of an army that exercises guard and police functions

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