variants
or black marketeers
as in smugglers
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Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, who heads the far-right Brothers of Italy party, pledged a crackdown on migration after taking office in 2022, with the goal of deterring would-be refugees from paying smugglers to make the dangerous Mediterranean crossing.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
22 Feb. 2026 -
Prior to September, alleged cartel members and drug smugglers were treated as criminals with due process rights.—
Alexandra Banner,
CNN Money,
18 Feb. 2026
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Hansen compared drug traffickers to multinational corporations.—
Greg Rosalsky,
NPR,
17 Feb. 2026
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Woodward said his agency typically focuses on traffickers while local police often handle cases involving smaller amounts of drugs.—
Ari Fife,
The Frontier,
17 Feb. 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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However, declining sales meant Sabri received only about 35% in rent due from retailers – a loss of more than $400,000, according to his company.—
Yahya Salem,
CNN Money,
17 Feb. 2026
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The new Tide evo tiles are now available at all major retailers nationwide.—
Joseph Erbentraut,
Better Homes & Gardens,
17 Feb. 2026
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Heavy sunflowers weeping over fences; iris curling and browning at the edges far away from their purple hearts; ears of corn letting their auburn hair wind down to their stalks.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Feb. 2026
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Staff move fences as the Women's Snowboard Slopestyle Final is postponed due to heavy snow in Livigno.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
17 Feb. 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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According to Chase, that includes grocery stores, specialty food stores or delivery service merchants that classify as grocery store merchants.—
Ryley Amond,
CNBC,
20 Feb. 2026
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By growing up in his family’s real estate business, not retailing, and by virtue of his style of conducting business, Baker has been in a class of his own, outside the circle of giant retail merchants like Allen Questrom, Terry Lundgren and the Nordstroms.—
David Moin,
Footwear News,
20 Feb. 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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