black marketer

variants or black marketeer
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Noun
  • North Korea has been adding mines, barbed wire fences, anti-tank barriers and other fortifications to what’s already one of the world’s most heavily armed borders as Kim Jong Un pushes a hard line toward Seoul.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The fences that separate the dry fields and the doors that allow you through them.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Often, smugglers are only engaged in the industry out of financial necessity or coercion.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2026
  • One roofer paid smugglers $15,000, was deported or left three times, and paid $5,000 each return.
    — WCCO Staff, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • But his favorite piece isn’t something fans can get from bootleggers.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Artificial intelligence developers have borrowed the word to describe boiling down a big AI model into a smaller one—and lately the biggest AI companies say that rivals have been distilling like bootleggers.
    — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Banks, retailers, delivery companies, and public services may all depend on the same cloud provider for parts of their digital operations, meaning a disruption can spread across multiple industries.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The family has also worked to import products directly to keep prices competitive with large retailers, like Party City and Spirit Halloween.
    — Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 20 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Zebra tablecloths and napkins completed the safari theme, and the walls were decorated with faux magazine covers of Bradfield and his partner, auctioneer William Featherby.
    — Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Igshaan Adams’s The certainty of being a rose (ii), a sculpture made of beads, thread and textile, fetched £96,000 ($127,000) despite the auctioneer reminding bidders that proceeds would benefit environmental charities.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 14 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Other theories about Madeleine’s disappearance include a botched robbery that resulted in her murder or an abduction by human traffickers.
    — Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Oct. 2026
  • With some roads blocked or heavily controlled, traffickers are increasingly believed to be using secondary roads and remote jungle trails, making movements harder to track.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Ordinarily, the United States enjoys a substantial diesel surplus and is the world’s largest diesel exporter.
    — Tatiana Mitrova, Foreign Affairs, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Worst-hit has been Bahrain, the smallest Gulf oil exporter, which has long relied on its neighbors to prop up its economy.
    — Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 23 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The unconventional financing structure did not prevent the filmmakers from securing a traditional theatrical distributor.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Siddiq puts out multiple specials a year on YouTube, to millions of views, while helping to uplift up-and-coming comics as an executive producer and distributor for their specials.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2026
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“Black marketer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/black%20marketer. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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