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or black marketeers
as in smugglers
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Two smugglers were later sentenced to decades in prison for that incident.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026 -
Sure, there were fewer bands, but Keenan worked the phones for weeks tracking down as many of the sailors and smugglers from that era as possible.—
Jack Crosbie,
Rolling Stone,
17 Mar. 2026
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Ecuador’s defense ministry said forces destroyed a hideout for a Border Command leader and also a training area with capacity for up to 50 drug traffickers.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
25 Mar. 2026
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Federal prosecutors in New York are investigating Colombian President Gustavo Petro for alleged ties to drug traffickers, according to two people familiar with the matter.—
Jim Mustian,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Mar. 2026
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From embracing bootleggers to pulling its catalog from Spotify, Mackenzie explains how the band has tried to protect its creative core while the industry transforms around it.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2026
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Groucho Marx stars as the new president of Huxley College, who attempts to sign on two pro players to help beat rival Darwin University but ends up getting a pair of bootleggers instead.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
6 Feb. 2026
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Advocates contend the findings reveal troubling conditions behind an industry that supplies plants and flowers to major retailers across the country.—
Ivan Taylor,
CBS News,
25 Mar. 2026
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Tea brands and toy retailers have also grown their overseas networks.—
Tom Chivers,
semafor.com,
25 Mar. 2026
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In the meantime, police cordoned off the beach area with construction fences to keep a large crowd of onlookers at bay.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
24 Mar. 2026
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Rules that require fences of certain heights might make little sense for new reactors buried in the earth; and rules that require a certain number of operators per reactor could be a bad fit for a cluster of smaller reactors with modern controls.—
Avi Asher-Schapiro,
ProPublica,
24 Mar. 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
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And more recently, federal raids hit merchants and their customers.—
Steve Lopez,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Mar. 2026
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Scammers can then run additional transactions using the same card details, sometimes across different merchants or terminals.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
28 Mar. 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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“Black marketers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/black%20marketers. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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