exports

verb

present tense third-person singular of export
as in sells
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 exports The honest tension is that this speed and coherence has not extended to what China exports through open weights and the Digital Silk Road, where catastrophic-risk evaluation still lags US and international peer efforts. — Ashish Bhatia, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026 Kazakhstan exports about 80% of its crude oil through that pipeline, Croft said in a note to clients this week. — Spencer Kimball,deena Zaidi, CNBC, 24 July 2026 These days, mezcal is among the most popular spirits on liquor store shelves; Mexico exports nearly 8 million litres of it each year. — Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 July 2026 For Qatar, which exports around a fifth of global LNG supply, a Hormuz workaround would entail not only building an expensive pipeline infrastructure but also investing in liquefaction facilities at ports to turn pipeline gas into LNG to be shipped around the world. — Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 4 June 2026 The company, which was founded in 1927, exports more than 98 percent of its production to more than 50 countries. — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 14 May 2026 His company, which exports products worth about $40 million annually, now runs generators at least four hours a day during production. — Julhas Alam, Fortune, 11 May 2026 The island already exports about 40 percent of its electricity, largely to Corsica and the Italian mainland via two existing submarine cables. — IEEE Spectrum, 7 May 2026 China alone exports nearly 8 million vehicles a year and is increasingly targeting new markets for its products, the bill's supporters say. — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for exports
  1. sells
  2. distributes
  3. trades
  4. markets
  5. supplies
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  • Belk Market sells an assortment of brands in men’s, women’s and children’s apparel, as well as shoes, handbags, accessories, home décor and fine jewelry, with frequent merchandise rotation, according to the company’s website.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Bouzari not only sells super-fast hard drives but also uses software to break up enormous files and spread them simultaneously across thousands of drives.
    — Iain Martin, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of sells
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  • The company also promotes a cash sweep program that distributes customer balances across multiple partner banks.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 27 July 2026
  • Otiala's cartel pulls water from different pipelines and distributes it to vendors, some of whom have kiosks while others sell from carts on the streets.
    — Raul Roman, NPR, 25 July 2026
Definition of distributes
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  • Seven weeks later, SpaceX trades below $110, far below its IPO price.
    — Anastasia Atamanchuk, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Melius raised its price target to $110 from $85, but noted Starbucks already trades at roughly 40 times expected fiscal 2026 earnings, leaving much of the turnaround reflected in the stock price.
    — Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of trades
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  • The girls involved in the Keaton incident were wearing shirts produced by her company, which markets itself as an athletic brand committed to preserving female sports and spaces.
    — Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2026
  • Now Spector is making a bigger bet on how the company markets itself.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 25 July 2026
Definition of markets
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  • The company supplies data center hardware (think Ethernet switches, routers, and other networking products) to hyperscalers including Microsoft and Meta Platforms .
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2026
  • The firm supplies electricity across much of the Gulf South, an area along the northern part of the Gulf of Mexico.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of supplies

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