variants
or black marketeers
as in smugglers
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Noun
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As Danny and Lena squared off against thieves, smugglers, and serial killers, Boston Blue also explored the tangled branches of the Silver family tree.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 May 2026 -
The reductions, which reduced the number of entomologists, have emboldened ant smugglers, Wired reported.—
Janet Loehrke,
USA Today,
15 May 2026
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On the one hand, traffickers are helping fuel the violent crime that conservatives decry; on the other, prosecution of gun laws brushes against tenets that conservatives hold sacrosanct.—
Alec MacGillis,
ProPublica,
1 June 2026
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One is that traffickers will travel to host cities to abduct or exploit unknown victims.—
Jennifer E. O'Brien,
The Conversation,
1 June 2026
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Stock car racing's origins trace back to the Prohibition era when bootleggers raced modified cars.—
Keith Laing,
USA Today,
23 May 2026
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Even the underground tunnels bootleggers used to service the Green Mill during its speakeasy days are still in place.—
Meena Thiruvengadam,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Apr. 2026
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Credit card companies and financial institutions currently charge retailers a fee when consumers use cards — based on the total transaction, including goods, taxes and tips.—
Olivia Olander,
Chicago Tribune,
2 June 2026
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Last week denim retailers published their results for Q1.—
Angela Velasquez,
Footwear News,
2 June 2026
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The plan is to invest in building and equipment upgrades like fences, bulletproof glass and video recording systems as well as fund more safety officers and their training, according to budget documents.—
Lauren Costantino,
Miami Herald,
2 June 2026
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Police try to hold the line as protesters push the fences outside the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark on Saturday, May 30, 2026.—
Mark Prussin,
CBS News,
31 May 2026
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Netflix leads all distributors with 35 total nominations across film and television, while Neon secured an impressive 21 film nominations despite being a smaller distributor.—
Jenzia Burgos,
StyleCaster,
11 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Participating merchants generally must fill out a refund document, and will need the traveler’s passport (or, sometimes, a photo of the passport) to do so, Steves wrote.—
Greg Iacurci,
CNBC,
30 May 2026
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Authorities also reported identifying and citing multiple merchants for selling tobacco products to minors during the current state grant funding cycle.—
Bay City News Service,
Mercury News,
30 May 2026
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By turning a blind eye to scalpers, even giving them the tools to bypass limits and harvest tickets, Live Nation has acted as the promoter, the primary ticket seller, the artists’ manager, and the scalper.—
Walden Green,
Pitchfork,
19 Sep. 2025
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