as in syndicate
a number of businesses or enterprises united for commercial advantage
a cartel of oil-producing nations that controls production and influences prices
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Recent Examples of cartel
Critics, including Trump and many Republicans, argue that the current system acts like a cartel, restricting competition and failing to hold poorly performing schools accountable.
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
The surge in violence is fueled by a complex web of transnational crime: drug trafficking routes, turf wars, and brutal alliances between local gangs and foreign cartels.
—David Culver, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2025
In 2018, Sessions called MS-13 a top transnational criminal group threatening the U.S., alongside Hezbollah and Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel.
—Danielle MacKey, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
Trump declared an emergency at the border on the first day of his second term and promised to send U.S. military forces to confront migrants, drug cartels and smugglers.
—Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 16 Apr. 2025
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
The surge in violence is fueled by a complex web of transnational crime: drug trafficking routes, turf wars, and brutal alliances between local gangs and foreign cartels.
—David Culver, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2025
In 2018, Sessions called MS-13 a top transnational criminal group threatening the U.S., alongside Hezbollah and Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel.
—Danielle MacKey, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
Trump declared an emergency at the border on the first day of his second term and promised to send U.S. military forces to confront migrants, drug cartels and smugglers.
—Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 16 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cartel
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Prosecutors say they were killed in 2022 by members of their own crew, acting on orders from the Aryan Brotherhood, a syndicate with vast influence over white inmates in California prisons.—
Matthew Ormseth,
Los Angeles Times,
2 May 2025
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As Renewal Talks With The CW Heat Up Set in the 1970s Southwest, Duster explores the life of a gutsy getaway driver for a growing crime syndicate that goes from dangerous to wildly, stupidly dangerous when a tenacious young agent comes into town hellbent on taking his crime family down.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
2 May 2025
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Outside of the earnings reaction, shares of Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk rose by 2% after U.S. healthcare conglomerate CVS Health unveiled plans to increase patient access to Novo’s megahit weight loss drug Wegovy.—
Ganesh Rao,Jenni Reid,Chloe Taylor,
CNBC,
1 May 2025
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As media conglomerates navigate an era in which their economics are less certain, however, on-screen outbursts might just become more frequent.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
29 Apr. 2025
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“Cartel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cartel. Accessed 10 May. 2025.
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