trafficked (in)

past tense of traffic (in)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for trafficked (in)
Verb
  • White real estate agents also averaged $1,998,000 in annual sales volume, the total dollar amount of property sold by an agent, whereas Black agents averaged $474,500 in sales volume.
    Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2026
  • The special-edition collaboration will be sold direct-to-consumer until supplies last.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 21 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • In 2025, American companies exported about US$54 billion in goods to Brazil, mainly refined fuel, aircraft parts, industrial machinery, fertilizer and electronics.
    Filipe Mendonça, The Conversation, 17 Sep. 2026
  • About a month before the murder, on June 10, approximately 20 ballistic vests were illegally exported to Haiti for the Colombians, who were former members of their country’s military, prosecutor say.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 14 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • McConnell exchanged passes with Mac Allister before progressing the ball forward to Ngumoha.
    Andy Jones, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Americans in the 1960s knew Francis Gary Powers as the CIA pilot of a secret U-2 spy plane shot down in 1960 over Soviet Russia, who was exchanged in a prisoner swap in 1962, during the peak of the Cold War.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • As the weather cools and pool parties and cookouts are traded for football tailgates and pumpkin patches, why not add a concert to the mix?
    DeAsia Paige, AJC.com, 21 Sep. 2026
  • The teams traded turnovers midway through the quarter as Jenkins threw his first interception of the season.
    Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • His opponent is the incumbent, Mike Naig, a former lobbyist for Monsanto, the industrial giant that marketed Roundup, a weed killer that in some cases contains the controversial herbicide glyphosate.
    Peter Slevin, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
  • The trend is reshaping how bedrooms are designed, how mattresses are marketed and how therapists talk about intimacy.
    Lauren Schuster, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2026
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“Trafficked (in).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trafficked%20%28in%29. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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