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as in import

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verb

as in to sell
to send a product to be sold in another country countries that export oil to the U.S.

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Recent Examples of export
Noun
Anthropic had to suspend access to its Fable 5 model days after launch to comply with US export controls tied to cybersecurity concerns, though access was restored a few weeks later. — Ruben Circelli, PC Magazine, 29 Oct. 2026 Together, these trends are building a regional chip export industry worth roughly $258 billion. — Sam Beltran, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2026
Verb
Most of the imports for those products are exported by Mexican manufacturers. — Caitlin Gilbert, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026 Verification reports can be exported to PDF, Word, Google Docs, or CSV. — Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 26 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for export
Recent Examples of Synonyms for export
  1. import
  2. sell
  3. supply
  4. distribute
  5. trade
Noun
  • The port at Columbus, New Mexico, is the third to resume Mexican cattle imports under new safeguards, which include tests, shots and inspections that happen before an animal even gets close to the border.
    — Susan Montoya Bryan, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026
  • According to Perpetua, there has been no commercial tungsten mining in the United States since 2015, leaving the country reliant on imports from a limited number of suppliers.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of import
Verb
  • Her husband started selling his collection of vintage rock band T-shirts online to help make ends meet.
    — Amy L. Wong, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Multiple shellstock tags from prior days were not labeled with the last date the shellfish was sold.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of sell
Noun
  • Ask for coconut sorbet, made from the abundant on-property supply.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Audi’s material-supply operations involve around one million picks daily, with components required to reach assembly workstations in the correct order.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of supply
Verb
  • The procedural dispute centers on a requirement to distribute amendment text to circuit court clerks for public posting, which lawmakers retroactively repealed.
    — Gabrielle M. Etzel, The Washington Examiner, 30 Oct. 2026
  • The combination of large-scale pre-training, distributed post-training and feedback-driven learning after deployment forms the basis of GO-3 Preview.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of distribute
Verb
  • Additionally, Nasdaq eliminated the rule requiring companies to have at least 10% of their total shares publicly traded, easing pressures on firms to issue additional shares and mitigating dilution risks for existing shareholders.
    — , CNBC, 28 Oct. 2026
  • The Melbourne duo taps into trip-hop’s essential strangeness on its latest album, trading the genre’s boilerplate languor for dejected moods, menacing auras, and slippery, all-consuming bass.
    — Sam Goldner, Pitchfork, 27 Oct. 2026
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