EXPORTS Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

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 Kansas City metro area exports about $4 billion in goods to Canada annually, including vehicles, plastics, chemicals and agricultural products. — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2026 To this day, Colombia exports more than 90 percent of its coffee crop. — Nikkita Nair, Saveur, 10 Sep. 2026 Bond pointed to purple states like Wisconsin, which exports dairy, and Maine, which exports seafood. — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 26 Aug. 2026 New Delhi primarily exports rice, tea, sugar and pharmaceuticals to Iran, and imports dry and fresh fruits from Iran. — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2026 Azerbaijan exports its oil through multinational pipelines, such as the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, which stretches over 1,000 miles through the country of Georgia and on into Turkey. — Daniel Markind, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026 The Houthis have vowed to close the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, a narrow waterway through which Saudi Arabia exports up to 7 million barrels of oil a day, now that access to the Strait of Hormuz is severely restricted. — Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 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

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An acquaintance who buys and sells movie props tells them that the boots are worth at least fifteen hundred dollars—a tenfold return on their investment.

— David Owen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
Potential release timelines for the two products are currently unclear, but Apple already sells mobile gaming controllers from SteelSeries and Backbone on its online store.

— Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of sells

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According to Spencer’s fundraiser, the organization distributes approximately 250,000 lbs.

— Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2026
In its counterarguments, Google contended would be unduly harsh to break up a complex network that distributes ads that online publishers depend upon to help finance digital services used by millions of consumers.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of distributes

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While the offshore Chinese currency trades more freely than the onshore one, it's still largely anchored to the latter, which is managed by the People's Bank of China.

— Lisa Kim, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026
As if this weren’t enough for one day, Venus will also make its debut in the secretive and smoldering sign of Scorpio, where the love planet trades light-hearted flirtation for something deeper and way more intense.

— Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of trades

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The Heat soon will name local over-the-air affiliates for the Palm Beach market and the Fort Myers market, markets that previously were served for Heat games by FanDuel Sports Sun.

— Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2026
The project is a major component of China’s Belt and Road Initiative and is intended to create a route to markets farther west.

— Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of markets

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On Lanai, one of Hawaii's smallest main islands, storm damage rendered a harbor that supplies much of the food and fuel to its 3,300 residents inoperable.

— GENE JOHNSON, Arkansas Online, 12 Sep. 2026
The plant currently supplies more than 10% of Finland’s electricity.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2026

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