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as in cartels
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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Recent Examples of syndicates
David Hill, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026
The four-hour epic by by Aditya Dahr is the sequel to Dhurandhar ($20 million in North American) and stars Ranveer Singh as an undercover Indian intelligence agent working to infiltrate Pakistani politics and Karachi’s criminal syndicates.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 22 Mar. 2026
The mining gangs are often armed and violent in protecting their territory and are controlled by criminal syndicates, authorities say.
—ABC News, 16 Mar. 2026
Carlsen noted that funds from both IT worker schemes and crypto heists frequently end up with Chinese brokers tied to organized-crime syndicates.
—Lisa Cavazuti, NBC news, 15 Mar. 2026
Recent Mexican history is riddled with the tales of once-powerful syndicates — gangs in Guadalajara, Tijuana and Ciudad Juárez, among them — that ruptured, were gobbled up by other mobs or petered out as the big guys were captured or killed.
—Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026
Adams put together a portfolio of his workday doodles and sent it to several newspaper syndicates.
—Chris Koseluk, HollywoodReporter, 13 Jan. 2026
Outside the capital, guerrilla groups and organized crime syndicates are exploiting the power vacuum along Venezuela’s borders and in its resource-rich interior.
—Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 9 Jan. 2026
Many of the scam compounds operating across Southeast Asia are run by Chinese crime syndicates.
—Ladan Anoushfar, CNN Money, 24 Nov. 2025
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Caleb Davies, another Kalshi trader who has earned $389,000 in culture markets over the past two years, says that the absence of financial organizations or syndicates of traders with big money allows knowledgeable traders to profit off of people who simply bet on their faves.
—David Hill, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026
The four-hour epic by by Aditya Dahr is the sequel to Dhurandhar ($20 million in North American) and stars Ranveer Singh as an undercover Indian intelligence agent working to infiltrate Pakistani politics and Karachi’s criminal syndicates.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 22 Mar. 2026
The mining gangs are often armed and violent in protecting their territory and are controlled by criminal syndicates, authorities say.
—ABC News, 16 Mar. 2026
Carlsen noted that funds from both IT worker schemes and crypto heists frequently end up with Chinese brokers tied to organized-crime syndicates.
—Lisa Cavazuti, NBC news, 15 Mar. 2026
Recent Mexican history is riddled with the tales of once-powerful syndicates — gangs in Guadalajara, Tijuana and Ciudad Juárez, among them — that ruptured, were gobbled up by other mobs or petered out as the big guys were captured or killed.
—Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026
Adams put together a portfolio of his workday doodles and sent it to several newspaper syndicates.
—Chris Koseluk, HollywoodReporter, 13 Jan. 2026
Outside the capital, guerrilla groups and organized crime syndicates are exploiting the power vacuum along Venezuela’s borders and in its resource-rich interior.
—Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 9 Jan. 2026
Many of the scam compounds operating across Southeast Asia are run by Chinese crime syndicates.
—Ladan Anoushfar, CNN Money, 24 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for syndicates
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Violence perpetrated by gangs resulted in at least 1,424 people killed and 790 injured; operations against gangs led by security forces, meanwhile, caused at least 3,497 deaths and 1,742 injuries; attacks against gangs by self-defense groups have caused at least 598 deaths and 76 injuries.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
24 Mar. 2026
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He was set to be imprisoned at the Salvadoran mega-prison CECOT, despite a judge's 2019 order that blocked his deportation there on the grounds that he could be harmed by local gangs.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
22 Mar. 2026
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Forcibly disappearing people has long been a tactic by cartels to consolidate control through terror while also concealing homicide numbers.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 Mar. 2026
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The closure forced Kenyan khat traders to route exports to Somalia through costly air shipments, which drove up prices and left farmers at the mercy of cartels who levied unofficial commissions.—
Joseph Maina,
semafor.com,
27 Mar. 2026
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The blend poses a danger to cars, and a higher blend contributes to the emission of pollutants.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 Mar. 2026
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These ranges closely match the wavelengths most readily absorbed by cytochrome c oxidase, a key enzyme in the mitochondrial electron transport chain that contributes to the formation of the cellular fuel known as adenosine triphosphate (ATP).—
Lynne Peeples,
Scientific American,
26 Mar. 2026
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Also part of the consortium is David Blitzer’s Bolt Ventures, as well as Indian conglomerates Aditya Birla Group and The Times of India Group.—
Luisa Beltran,
Sportico.com,
24 Mar. 2026
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Also included is a look at Netflix, whose financials are also not directly comparable to those of the studio units of entertainment conglomerates.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Mar. 2026
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Late edits to a speech, and the resulting changes to the words on the screen, threaten to throw off his delivery.—
Taryn Luna,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Mar. 2026
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The Layers panel shows you which edits apply to each layer.—
Michael Muchmore,
PC Magazine,
13 Mar. 2026
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Efforts to enable reversible, two-way actuation have led to the development of systems such as semi-crystalline networks and liquid crystalline elastomers, which depend on structural alignment under applied stress.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Mar. 2026
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Tea brands and toy retailers have also grown their overseas networks.—
Tom Chivers,
semafor.com,
25 Mar. 2026
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Like nearly all fabless AI chipmakers, Arm currently manufactures its CPU at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s fabrication plants.—
Katie Tarasov,
CNBC,
24 Mar. 2026
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Micron manufactures the high-bandwidth memory chips needed to train and run large language models and other AI systems that have proliferated since the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in late 2022.—
Angela Palermo,
Idaho Statesman,
21 Mar. 2026
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Voter fraud conspiracies are like methamphetamine running through MAGA veins, stirring up equal parts passion and paranoia.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Mar. 2026
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The drumbeat of Christian war imagery has ignited dangerous conspiracies about Jews, such as Tucker Carlson’s contention that the Chabad-Lubavitch sect of Judaism secretly started the war.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Syndicates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/syndicates. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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