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Jukes

American

[jooks] / dʒuks /

noun

the fictitious name of an actual family that was the focus of a 19th-century sociological study of the inheritance of feeble-mindedness and its correlation with social degeneracy.

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Last month, the Met confirmed it had removed more than 1,400 officers and staff from its ranks in three years in what Deputy Commissioner Jukes called an "Al Capone" approach to uncover wrongdoing.

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2025

Jukes said it was having "as big an impact as the pursuit of corrupt officers in Sir Robert Marks' commissionership".

From BBC • Sep. 17, 2025

But Matt Jukes, the UK's Head of Counter Terrorism Policing, says it is relatively easy for police to infiltrate criminal groups because they are not ideologically aligned with the Iranian regime.

From BBC • May 15, 2025

But Mr Jukes found Telegram, host of several large groups in which disorder was organised and hate and disinformation were shared, hard to deal with.

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2024

You don't really mean to call these awful Morrowbie Jukes pits 'funny little holes'!

From Insect Stories by Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman)

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