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Recent Examples of gray market
While marketing software through Telegram isn’t inherently nefarious, researchers say that Haotian’s customer base has increasingly skewed toward scammers who already seek out information about an array of gray market services on the messaging app.
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Matt Burgess, Wired News, 18 Dec. 2025
The federal change responded to a gray market created by the 2018 Farm Bill, which legalized intoxicating hemp with few limits.
—Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati Enquirer, 10 Dec. 2025
To this end, Cucinelli urged the independent players to tap into the online commerce without betraying their identity of exclusivity and desirability, subtly reprimanding those who embraced the gray market outright.
—Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2025
This loophole fueled a $28 billion gray market, which states are now slowly dismantling—though some have already moved to regulate the industry.
—Dario Sabaghi, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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Matt Burgess, Wired News, 18 Dec. 2025
The federal change responded to a gray market created by the 2018 Farm Bill, which legalized intoxicating hemp with few limits.
—Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati Enquirer, 10 Dec. 2025
To this end, Cucinelli urged the independent players to tap into the online commerce without betraying their identity of exclusivity and desirability, subtly reprimanding those who embraced the gray market outright.
—Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2025
This loophole fueled a $28 billion gray market, which states are now slowly dismantling—though some have already moved to regulate the industry.
—Dario Sabaghi, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gray market
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In September, Newsom signed a bill to roll back taxes on the legal-cannabis industry, because the regulatory burden has left it struggling to compete with the black market.—
Helen Lewis,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2026
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Reisman learned that the foreign black market could spin a few pennies’ investment into much more.—
Julien Levy,
Rolling Stone,
27 Dec. 2025
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China’s foreign minister urged Gulf countries to finally seal a free trade agreement that has been in negotiations for decades.—
Matthew Martin,
semafor.com,
15 Dec. 2025
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Perhaps there's an echo of the debate over free trade.—
Mark Niquette,
Arkansas Online,
15 Dec. 2025
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“Gray market.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gray%20market. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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