as in traders
a buyer and seller of goods for profit
a trafficker who sold pirated videos from the back of his car
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Recent Examples of traffickers
Australians pay some of the world’s highest prices for cocaine, which makes Australia a lucrative market for drug traffickers.
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ABC News,
21 June 2026
Once received, Catis mixed the nitazenes with other drugs, pressed the substance into a brick, and sold it to other drug traffickers.
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Jonathan Moens — Bellingcat,
STAT,
18 June 2026
Sazan became the Tortuga of drug and human traffickers to Italy.
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Marzio G. Mian,
Vanity Fair,
16 June 2026
Pineros, Director of Anti-Trafficking Services at Camillus House, said that while the Homestead sting is a case involving strangers, most often the traffickers and victims know each other.
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Anna McAllister,
CBS News,
11 June 2026
The Peruvian counterinsurgency succeeded due to a strategy that deliberately cut ties between the guerrillas and the drug traffickers.
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Michelle D. Paranzino,
The Conversation,
11 June 2026
Moore is a freshman member of the conservative Freedom Caucus and a loyal Trump supporter, while Hudson served as a Sherriff’s deputy after leaving the military and now heads a nonprofit training law enforcement on targeting human traffickers.
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Joseph Nepomuceno,
The Washington Examiner,
6 June 2026
The Utahn introduced a bill in December that would authorize the president to issue letters of marque, a tool by which the government licenses private individuals to attack foreign interests by seizing ships, as a way of taking on drug traffickers.
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David A. Graham,
The Atlantic,
4 June 2026
On the one hand, traffickers are helping fuel the violent crime that conservatives decry; on the other, prosecution of gun laws brushes against tenets that conservatives hold sacrosanct.
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Alec MacGillis,
ProPublica,
1 June 2026
ABC News,
21 June 2026
Once received, Catis mixed the nitazenes with other drugs, pressed the substance into a brick, and sold it to other drug traffickers.
—
Jonathan Moens — Bellingcat,
STAT,
18 June 2026
Sazan became the Tortuga of drug and human traffickers to Italy.
—
Marzio G. Mian,
Vanity Fair,
16 June 2026
Pineros, Director of Anti-Trafficking Services at Camillus House, said that while the Homestead sting is a case involving strangers, most often the traffickers and victims know each other.
—
Anna McAllister,
CBS News,
11 June 2026
The Peruvian counterinsurgency succeeded due to a strategy that deliberately cut ties between the guerrillas and the drug traffickers.
—
Michelle D. Paranzino,
The Conversation,
11 June 2026
Moore is a freshman member of the conservative Freedom Caucus and a loyal Trump supporter, while Hudson served as a Sherriff’s deputy after leaving the military and now heads a nonprofit training law enforcement on targeting human traffickers.
—
Joseph Nepomuceno,
The Washington Examiner,
6 June 2026
The Utahn introduced a bill in December that would authorize the president to issue letters of marque, a tool by which the government licenses private individuals to attack foreign interests by seizing ships, as a way of taking on drug traffickers.
—
David A. Graham,
The Atlantic,
4 June 2026
On the one hand, traffickers are helping fuel the violent crime that conservatives decry; on the other, prosecution of gun laws brushes against tenets that conservatives hold sacrosanct.
—
Alec MacGillis,
ProPublica,
1 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for traffickers
Noun
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Oil prices edged lower as traders continued to monitor tanker traffic through the waterway.
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In the futures markets, traders priced in the possibility of a rate rise in September.
Noun
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Many antique purchases for the store are made through private sales between dealers, but some of Corbett’s favorite and most prized possessions have come from auctions and estate sales.
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According to court records, between March and September 2024, investigators reportedly made 11 purchases of drugs from various dealers.
Noun
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During the Middle Ages, Venetian and Genoese merchants sought larger, more secure sources of production for what was by then a popular wine.
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As a result, merchants like Nekhala with complicated issues struggle to find a human to help them, and when they do, often get passed from one representative to another, according to sellers and their consultants.
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“Traffickers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/traffickers. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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