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Recent Examples of gray market
These are professional shoplifters backed by criminal organizations that plan large-scale thefts and fence the products on the gray market, often selling across state lines or through the internet.
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Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 2 Apr. 2025
Resellers operating in the gray market have reportedly been using entities registered outside of China to acquire Nvidia’s newest chips, including the Blackwell GPUs—which are prohibited from being sold to Chinese customers—via companies based in Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Nevertheless, reports indicate that gray market resellers are utilizing entities registered outside China to purchase servers incorporating Nvidia’s latest offerings from companies based in several countries, such as Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
And of the many unlicensed home care aides who work in gray market, many are immigrants, including many who are undocumented.
—Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
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Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 2 Apr. 2025
Resellers operating in the gray market have reportedly been using entities registered outside of China to acquire Nvidia’s newest chips, including the Blackwell GPUs—which are prohibited from being sold to Chinese customers—via companies based in Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Nevertheless, reports indicate that gray market resellers are utilizing entities registered outside China to purchase servers incorporating Nvidia’s latest offerings from companies based in several countries, such as Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
And of the many unlicensed home care aides who work in gray market, many are immigrants, including many who are undocumented.
—Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gray market
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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
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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
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For most of its history, the G-7 was a club of rich countries that met to coordinate monetary and macroeconomic policies to combat inflation and recession, and to promote free trade.—
VICTOR CHA,
Foreign Affairs,
11 June 2025
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Until the Trump Administration applied its 10% universal tariff to goods from the country, the Dominican Republic–Central America Free Trade Agreement had allowed free trade between the two countries since 2004.—
Vanessa Yurkevich,
CNN Money,
4 June 2025
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“Gray market.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gray%20market. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.
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