DEA
1 Americanabbreviation
Example Sentences
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He was handed to DEA agents, who flew him to the United States, where he will stand trial.
From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026
The DEA is supporting the Bolivian government as it conducts "reliability" screens on anti-narcotics officers using polygraph lie detectors.
From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026
The nephews urged Haitian officials to call Caracas, since they were “important people,” the officials told Sandalio Gonzalez, the lead DEA agent on the case.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
They were in fact a father-son team of DEA informants wearing hidden tape recorders.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
By 2000, the DEA had directly trained more than 25,000 officers in forty-eight states in Pipeline tactics and helped to develop training programs for countless municipal and state law enforcement agencies.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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