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crime wave
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Princeton's WordNet
crime wavenoun
a sudden rise in the crime rate
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crime wave
A crime wave is a sudden and significant increase in the rate of criminal activities or incidents happening within a particular area, region, or country, usually over a specific period.
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Crime Wave
Crime Wave is a 1954 film noir, directed by André De Toth. It was adapted from a short story which originally appeared in The Saturday Evening Post - Criminal Mark by John and Ward Hawkins.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of crime wave in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of crime wave in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of crime wave in a Sentence
You have to step back and say you have to look at statistics. 2014 was a historic low in violent crime, if there's a spike in some cities, that's something we have to take seriously and pay attention to, but it certainly doesn't suddenly translate into this notion that a crime wave's coming.
Even amidst the national crime wave, a disproportionate share of the new judges President Joe Biden has nominated share this professional background that liberals say gives special empathy for criminal defendants.
There's a crime wave like nobody's ever seen before, we're not going to let it continue.
At the time, it was sold that local police departments might have pandemic-related budget shortfalls, not we need to keep cops on the beat because there's a crime wave, i think that any local department would argue that keeping cops on the beat to keep communities safe when they had to, because of budget shortfalls, fire police is something that helped them address crime in their local communities.
We're not going to let it continue, they're are incredible people who have been devastated by the crime wave of the illegal immigrants... I'll tell you what -- the lives that have been lost, they're gonna serve a very, very important fact. What's happened to these people is just a shame.
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