syndicate 1 of 2

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as in Mafia
a group involved in secret or criminal activities a syndicate of counterfeiters

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as in cartel
a number of businesses or enterprises united for commercial advantage a powerful banking syndicate that controls loans in the small country

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syndicate

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verb

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Recent Examples of syndicate
Noun
Publish and syndicate your content on platforms that are frequently scraped by AI engines like Wikipedia, Reddit, Medium, YouTube, Quora, LinkedIn and high-authority news sites. Don Dodds, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025 The show is syndicated by Superadio and airs on more than 70 stations across the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Australia. Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 2 July 2025
Verb
So far, no one has ruled out the possibility that other groups—possibly from different governments or private crime syndicates—are also exploiting CVE-2025-53770. Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 23 July 2025 The Treasury Department on Wednesday sanctioned five key leaders of the Mexican crime syndicate Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion, which is responsible for trafficking fentanyl and other illicit drugs into the United States. David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 18 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for syndicate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for syndicate
Noun
  • Finalists older than 20 are Blood Moon Mafia, Jupiter Rock Farm, Leave it to Us and The Marina Effect.
    Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Presley’s friends in the Memphis Mafia were convinced that Elvis wanted to tour the world and blamed Parker’s fear of deportation.
    Kim Willis, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • President Joe Biden allowed hardened criminals, rapists, murderers, child predators, and members of violent drug cartels and foreign terrorist organizations to cross our border with impunity.
    Riley Moore, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Fixating just on foreign cartels ignores the bigger picture.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Herald/Times staff writer Romy Ellenbogen contributed to this story.
    Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The setback contributed to the delay of the Space Force's first operational flight with the Vulcan rocket from the end of last year until now.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • With the support of Ye and other top military leaders, People’s Liberation Army troops arrested the gang.
    TYLER JOST, Foreign Affairs, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Federal immigration agents in Kansas City arrested a 34-year-old man from Mexico last week who was previously deported several times and was identified as a gang member, according to a news release from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Kansas City.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The chairman of the Philippines’ oldest conglomerate, Ayala Corp., nudged his eldest daughter to come home.
    Jonathan Burgos, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • In June, radio conglomerate Audacy shut down its Pineapple Street Studios division, which produced podcasts for third-party brands such as HBO, Apple TV+ and Netflix, and, which was seen as another sign of the podcasting industry’s move away from the audio-only business.
    Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • In advance of the FCC’s approval of the merger, Paramount settled Trump’s lawsuit over the way that 60 Minutes edited an interview with Kamala Harris.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025
  • An example is how AIs can act as assistants to teach us to carry out complex artistic and technical tasks like editing video or writing code.
    Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The network can also run in reverse, with the utility taking excess power from the grid at times of low demand and sending it into home batteries for storage.
    Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Once successful, the solutions can be scaled systematically across the broader supply network.
    Umesh Kumar Sharma, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • AbbVie plans to spend $195 million on a facility to manufacture active pharmaceutical ingredients at its campus north of Chicago.
    Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The anomaly was later attributed to a manufacturing defect on a nozzle on one of the rocket's solid side boosters.
    Brett Tingley, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2025

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“Syndicate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/syndicate. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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