black marketer

variants or black marketeer
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Noun
  • Hungarians living near the southern frontier, where Orbán made a show of building a border fence during the refugee crisis, are travelling to Croatia to buy cheap groceries.
    Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Using the HistoPad, visitors fly down a dirt road flanked by wooden snake rail fences to the intersection of Trade and Tryon streets.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 9 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The tactic has become more popular with smugglers as police on the beaches try to thwart crossings by puncturing the rafts that groups of migrants have to inflate and carry to the water.
    ABC News, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Cook County Jail in Chicago, which houses nearly 5,000 detainees, has reported increasing cases of smugglers soaking paper with synthetic drugs and sending them into the jail through mail or visitors.
    Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 7 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • His father was a factory worker and a barber, as well as a bootlegger and loan shark.
    Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 2 Apr. 2026
  • His death reportedly was the result of a dispute with a bootlegger.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Contact retailers for questions about products before ordering.
    Tory Johnson, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Get clothing alterations, not just on Nordstrom and Nordstrom Rack items, but also from other retailers.
    Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Oliver Barker, Sotheby’s lead auctioneer and chairman of Sotheby’s Europe, attributed the market’s strength to the ultra-rare works being offered for sale.
    Robert Frank, CNBC, 12 Mar. 2026
  • On the styling front, Park drew on research into real-world auctioneers to develop a look that tracked Seol-ah’s shifting emotional states.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • In March, state media reported that China arrested seven people in an operation targeting traffickers of fentanyl precursors, according to the Reuters news agency.
    CBS News, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The United States has said Total Extermination showed successful cooperation between the two countries to aggressively fight drug traffickers.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Oil infrastructure suffered widespread damage over the last six weeks in countries like United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Iraq, Oman and Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter.
    Matt Egan, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Add Egypt’s food import bill, and its shift from being a net oil exporter to an importer, and the result is a chronic trade balance deficit.
    Alaa Shahine Salha, semafor.com, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Overall, Neon landed the most noms of any film distributor, with 21, while Netflix scored the most TV nominations, with 22.
    McKinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 4 Apr. 2026
  • But March for Our Lives argues that what the film discusses and how the movie is presented by its distributor are two different stories, and A24 may have missed the mark in starting a bigger conversation.
    Brian Welk, IndieWire, 3 Apr. 2026
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“Black marketer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/black%20marketer. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.

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