black marketers

variants or black marketeers
plural of black marketer

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Noun
  • Sistan-Baluchistan, which borders Pakistan and Afghanistan, has long seen clashes between security forces, insurgents and drug smugglers.
    Alex Sundby, CBS News, 30 June 2026
  • For example, when Rhode Islanders complained about how the British ship Gaspee was attacking their ships without mercy in its hunt for smugglers, the Royal Navy waved away the colonial government.
    Robert Parkinson, The Conversation, 24 June 2026
Noun
  • Tapia, the other co-founder, said these fake job offers flood social media and have enabled traffickers to target dozens of people at the same time.
    Michael Rios, CNN Money, 30 June 2026
  • In the early two-thousands, Colombian cocaine traffickers, seeking to evade tightening controls in their country, began to reroute shipments through coastal towns in Manabí and elsewhere in Ecuador.
    Will Freeman, New Yorker, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • Working primarily in Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), Reeves tracked down murderers, thieves, bootleggers and other outlaws across a vast and often dangerous frontier.
    Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 6 June 2026
  • Stock car racing's origins trace back to the Prohibition era when bootleggers raced modified cars.
    Keith Laing, USA Today, 23 May 2026
Noun
  • Most national retailers, grocery stores and restaurant chains will be open on Independence Day, however banks and post offices will be closed.
    Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 3 July 2026
  • Though America’s birthday doesn’t have the same reputation as other long weekend events for sales, the midpoint of the year is still a reliably good time to find clearance deals as retailers mark down last season’s goods before the summer ends.
    Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 3 July 2026
Noun
  • The fire is moving so rapidly that authorities urged ranchers and residents to cut their fences so their animals might have a better chance of surviving.
    Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 30 June 2026
  • Law enforcement officials frequently draw virtual fences around areas of interest and require Google to identify every cellphone in the area using cell location history.
    Anne Toomey McKenna, The Conversation, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • Despite the cool reception from distributors, the pair haven’t given up, and still plan on shopping their movie to either a streamer or theatrical distributor.
    Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 11 June 2026
  • 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
  • Libra was always only meant to be an enabler for wallets, merchants and platforms.
    Christian Catalini, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Dutch merchants, families and investors moved through a wide Atlantic network that connected Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and North America.
    R. Grant Gilmore III, The Conversation, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • 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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“Black marketers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/black%20marketers. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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