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Examples
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Plain-clothes officers from the Ministry of State Security were waiting for him.
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Associated Press Plain-clothes police officers shaved the young men's heads.
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Plain-clothes security officers drifted through the crowd in Minsk that turned out to hear Lukashenko speak and arrested people they said were disrupting his speech by clapping their hands, but otherwise remaining silent.
Polish Journalist Convicted of Libeling Belarus' Lukashenko 2011
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Plain-clothes policemen tried to hold him back, but he brushed them aside.
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Plain-clothes officers seem to direct the actions of the rest.
The Para-Dice Riders Charter Case Against Police Roadblocks 1997
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Plain-clothes men, looking disconcertingly like television actors playing plain-clothes men, made their methodical search of every room and cupboard in the clinic verifying that there was indeed no unauthorized person on the premises and that the back doors both of the ground floor and the basement were securely locked from the inside.
A Mind to Murder James, P. D. 1963
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Plain-clothes men throughout the house quelled the slight disturbance, but at every opportunity another belligerent broke into unruly behaviour.
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Plain-clothes police, supported by anti-riot cops in full gear, were turning away a handful of worshipers.
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Plain-clothes police, supported by anti-riot cops in full gear, were turning away a handful of worshipers.
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Plain-clothes police officers disguised as bushwalkers headed to Ferny Creek in Melbourne's
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