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  • noun Plural form of profiler.

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Examples

  • The last I heard, the Bureau was calling profilers Criminal Investigative Agents, or CIAs an acronym destined for confusion.

    Body of Evidence Patricia Cornwell 1991

  • The last I heard, the Bureau was calling profilers Criminal Investigative Agents, or CIAs an acronym destined for confusion.

    Body of Evidence Patricia Cornwell 1991

  • Criminal Minds follows a team of profilers from the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit; Whitaker would play Cooper, who used to be hot stuff in the organization before an eight-year leave of absence.

    Oscar Winner Forest Whitaker Set to Star in CRIMINAL MINDS Spin-off – Collider.com 2010

  • Yes, well they don't like to be called profilers -- behavioral scientists.

    CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2002 2002

  • DEVASKA (ph): There's never been a crime just like this, so all these so-called profilers and mental health experts who were holding forth about this person had best -- or irrelevant or silly and at worst, they're harmful.

    CNN Transcript Oct 27, 2002 2002

  • As for visiting firemen like the so-called profilers of the Behavioral Sciences Unit, or the Investigative Support or Liaison Support operatives like Pender, they considered themselves lucky if they were even called to a crime scene.

    The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001

  • As for visiting firemen like the so-called profilers of the Behavioral Sciences Unit, or the Investigative Support or Liaison Support operatives like Pender, they considered themselves lucky if they were even called to a crime scene.

    The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001

  • As for visiting firemen like the so-called profilers of the Behavioral Sciences Unit, or the Investigative Support or Liaison Support operatives like Pender, they considered themselves lucky if they were even called to a crime scene.

    The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001

  • "The deployment of the profilers is a major milestone for Florida Atlantic University, and our research and development efforts to utilize energy from the Gulf Stream as a source of renewable energy," FAU President Frank T. Brogan said in a news release.

    South Florida Business News - Local South Florida News | The South Florida Business Journal 2009

  • "profilers" - track down criminals by anticipating their next moves in this procedural drama, now in its fourth season.

    LAist 2008

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