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frisked
verb
Past of frisk
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The Israeli-owned mall was well aware of the security warnings and had precautions similar to an airport; cars are checked with mirrors for bombs and pedestrians are frisked.
Alternatively, you may be frisked and all your documents photocopied.
Thinking they must have come to the wrong place, Mr Norris opened his front door, and was startled to be shoved against a wall and frisked for weapons.
Israel's streets bustle with machinegun-toting 20-year-olds, its kerbs groan beneath armoured cars, and its nervous restaurateurs have you frisked at the steel-barred door.The struggle between the Israelis and the Palestinians has captured the world's imagination like no other.
More than half of those were also frisked.Royalty Young, a 20-year-old black man, has been stopped and frisked several times.
But beforehand the guards had to line up for a different sort of inspection: passing through a metal detector; being frisked; and placing their rifles through an X-ray machine to make sure they were unloaded.
Being stopped and frisked may be irksome, he argues, but it teaches young men not to carry guns, and that saves a lot of (mostly black and Hispanic) lives.
A heat map by John Keefe at WNYC, the city's big public radio station, does a great job of showing where people are stopped and frisked the most, as well as where weapons are most commonly found.The data reveal what one might expect: the north of Manhattan and the Bronx have both the most frisks and the most arms (chart below; website here).
More than half of those stopped were also frisked.
Young Ahmadis frisked the worshippers, admittedly more thoroughly than usual, as they entered the mosque.
Many migrant workers, it is said, have taken to sewing up small amounts of money in their coats, to have something left over after they are frisked.
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