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Recent Examples of scalpers
By turning a blind eye to scalpers, even giving them the tools to bypass limits and harvest tickets, Live Nation has acted as the promoter, the primary ticket seller, the artists’ manager, and the scalper.
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Walden Green, Pitchfork, 19 Sep. 2025
Walden Green, Pitchfork, 19 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scalpers
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From embracing bootleggers to pulling its catalog from Spotify, Mackenzie explains how the band has tried to protect its creative core while the industry transforms around it.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2026
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Groucho Marx stars as the new president of Huxley College, who attempts to sign on two pro players to help beat rival Darwin University but ends up getting a pair of bootleggers instead.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
6 Feb. 2026
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Oseguera was the leader and co-founder of the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel, a criminal group that has rapidly expanded its influence in recent years, becoming one of the main traffickers of methamphetamine and fentanyl into the US.—
Gonzalo Zegarra,
CNN Money,
24 Feb. 2026
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Oseguera Cervantes, the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and one of the world’s most-notorious drug traffickers, died during an attempt to capture him in Jalisco state.—
Charisma Madarang,
Rolling Stone,
23 Feb. 2026
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Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, who heads the far-right Brothers of Italy party, pledged a crackdown on migration after taking office in 2022, with the goal of deterring would-be refugees from paying smugglers to make the dangerous Mediterranean crossing.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
22 Feb. 2026
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Prior to September, alleged cartel members and drug smugglers were treated as criminals with due process rights.—
Alexandra Banner,
CNN Money,
18 Feb. 2026
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The gains made by informed traders connected with COP 20, held in 2014, were estimated to be $12 billion.—
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 2026
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Payment companies such as Mastercard and American Express were hit particularly hard as traders contemplated a future with lower spending.—
Jared Perlo,
NBC news,
24 Feb. 2026
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Commissioner Abe Laydon said during the business meeting Tuesday that the ordinance was not meant to punish retailers but to keep the community safe.—
John Aguilar,
Denver Post,
25 Feb. 2026
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The agency is instead urging riders to download the Umo app or purchase a reloadable card at retailers such as H-E-B or 7-Eleven.—
Alex Driggars,
Austin American Statesman,
24 Feb. 2026
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The Royals are moving the fences 9 to 10 feet inward and one projection said that could result in 46 more home runs this season.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
24 Feb. 2026
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Other builders said fences add costs and aren’t enough, because workers have to get to the jobsite and ICE can wait outside to arrest workers or pick them up in traffic stops.—
Suzanne Gamboa,
NBC news,
24 Feb. 2026
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Food and drink concessionaires, professional caterers, HOA clubhouses, event planners — any purveyor that’s not a public restaurant, food truck, flea market stall or food hall vendor — are also excluded from the roundup.—
Phillip Valys,
Sun Sentinel,
3 Feb. 2026
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Instead, big concessionaires bid for the chance to operate multiple stores at an airport.—
Lily O'Neill,
San Antonio Express-News,
26 Jan. 2026
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Netflix leads all distributors with 35 total nominations across film and television, while Neon secured an impressive 21 film nominations despite being a smaller distributor.—
Jenzia Burgos,
StyleCaster,
11 Jan. 2026
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“Scalpers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scalpers. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.
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