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What are detectives?

What are detectives? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of detective
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The police in his books are definitely the good guys, despite a trend for corrupt fictional detectives.
The detectives were acting on a tip-off from a thief who had broken into Mr Morrison's house only days earlier.
But their plan was foiled by detectives who were sitting in wait near the Swissport cargo warehouse on May 17 last year.
Last night she was still recovering in hospital, and too ill to speak to detectives.
The lives of fictional private detectives tend to be action-packed, dangerous and full of incident.
A gang of thugs who lay in wait before attacking a man with a baseball bat and an iron bar could strike again, say detectives.

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