free trade

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Recent Examples of free trade Meanwhile, the evidence of the downsides of free trade for U.S. workers had become more apparent. Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 17 June 2025 Politicians once debated the merits of tariffs versus free trade. Kyle Handley, National Review, 11 June 2025 Distrust of free trade has been rising in both political parties in the United States. Emily Kilcrease, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2025 Mira Rapp-Hooper, a former National Security Council official in the Biden White House who worked on alliances in the Asia-Pacific region, said the Trump administration may be underestimating the impact of its assault on free trade. Damien Cave, New York Times, 31 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for free trade
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Noun
  • That’s on the west edge of town next to Keller, on the Fort Worth side of Southlake and safely removed from the thick traffic near Texas 114.
    Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 July 2025
  • Spending large chunks of time sitting on a train or stuck in traffic is not conducive to good work-life balance.
    Anne Marie D. Lee, CBS News, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • But the underlying rails that power payments haven’t kept pace with the fluidity of today’s digital marketplaces.
    Paul Marcantonio, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • More than 50 products were subject to recall notices in June, with the online marketplace revealing the details of each on its website.
    Chloe Mayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • But the company has built a business around identifying illicit services like digital black markets out of the morass of billions of cryptocurrency addresses.
    Andy Greenberg, Wired News, 5 June 2025
  • He was featured in Marquardt’s 2021 report on the exorbitant fees being demanded on the black market to evacuate Afghans during the chaotic U.S. withdrawal.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • In confronting the Mexican government for its failure to prevent the femicides, the band also challenges a culture in which commerce is valued more than the lives of the workers who keep it running.
    Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025
  • Garments typically fall under the purview of the country’s commerce ministry, but Babu has argued that the industry has gotten too big to not have its own representation in government.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • The Nabataeans were an incredibly skilled trading tribe in the spice trade.
    Alex Ledsom, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • After the trade that sent Jalen Ramsey to the Steelers resulted in a pay increase for the star cornerback, rumors have started rumbling about a possible Watt trade.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • You shouldn’t be worried as long as the filler is FDA-approved, purchased from a legitimate source (not gray market) and injected by a qualified professional.
    Carlos Wolf, Miami Herald, 19 June 2025
  • The city is moving aggressively to shut down the once-thriving gray market — a matter of public safety, and also essential for the legal medical cannabis industry to thrive.
    Anna Spiegel, Axios, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Under the former Gucci global chief merchandising officer’s leadership, Re/Done aims to grow its direct-to-consumer business and expand into new categories and global markets.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 26 June 2025
  • Well, not quite, but Sara Haines and Sunny Hostin still frolicked on set during the show's recurring View Your Deal merchandising segment.
    EW.com, EW.com, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • The most critical portion of the retailing segment is Berkshire Hathaway Automotive (BHA), which owns over 80 auto dealerships.
    Bill Stone, Forbes.com, 10 May 2025
  • His wife is the descendant of retailing magnate Isidor Straus and his wife, Ida, two of the wealthiest people to die aboard the Titanic, according to the New York Times.
    Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 13 June 2025

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