as in dealing
to carry on the business of buying and selling goods or other property
arrested him for trafficking in drugs
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Recent Examples of trafficking
Police said trainees learned how to use an investigative tool to analyze online data, identify trafficking patterns and find victims.
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Tory Wegerski, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026
Last year, he was also arrested on suspicion of trafficking drugs in Sacramento, court records show.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2026
The group also confiscated more than 90 firearms and rescued six human trafficking victims.
—Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
Matt wasn't so sure, pointing to his record of selling drugs and trafficking weapons, but Foggy argued in favor of giving even someone who has done terrible things a second chance.
—Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
Salazar-Cruz faces the most serious charges, including multiple counts of firearms possession as an unlawful alien, numerous drug trafficking counts, firearms trafficking offenses and possession of unregistered weapons, according to court records.
—Jasmine Mendez
follow, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2026
Washington has intensified its crackdown on the Cartel del Noreste — heir to the former Zetas — which has been accused of trafficking weapons, drugs and people, and is characterized by its violent practices and extortion.
—ABC News, 14 Apr. 2026
Perera, after receiving a grand jury subpoena more than five years ago, chose to flip on Rivera and Nuhfer and got to keep his multimillion-dollar commission on the Venezuelan deal, a remarkable outcome for the Miami real estate developer with a cocaine-trafficking conviction in the late 1990s.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2026
House Bill 535 would impose harsher minimum sentences for anyone convicted of trafficking fentanyl.
—Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 8 Apr. 2026
Tory Wegerski, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026
Last year, he was also arrested on suspicion of trafficking drugs in Sacramento, court records show.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2026
The group also confiscated more than 90 firearms and rescued six human trafficking victims.
—Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
Matt wasn't so sure, pointing to his record of selling drugs and trafficking weapons, but Foggy argued in favor of giving even someone who has done terrible things a second chance.
—Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
Salazar-Cruz faces the most serious charges, including multiple counts of firearms possession as an unlawful alien, numerous drug trafficking counts, firearms trafficking offenses and possession of unregistered weapons, according to court records.
—Jasmine Mendez
follow, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2026
Washington has intensified its crackdown on the Cartel del Noreste — heir to the former Zetas — which has been accused of trafficking weapons, drugs and people, and is characterized by its violent practices and extortion.
—ABC News, 14 Apr. 2026
Perera, after receiving a grand jury subpoena more than five years ago, chose to flip on Rivera and Nuhfer and got to keep his multimillion-dollar commission on the Venezuelan deal, a remarkable outcome for the Miami real estate developer with a cocaine-trafficking conviction in the late 1990s.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2026
House Bill 535 would impose harsher minimum sentences for anyone convicted of trafficking fentanyl.
—Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 8 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trafficking
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Isaac Gonzales-Chavac, 23, and Franklin Jair Lopez, 18, were charged with dealing firearms without a license, a federal offense, as part of an undercover operation started by the Daly City police department.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
17 Apr. 2026
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According to investigators, the drug task force received an anonymous tip in November of last year that Covelli was dealing drugs in the city of Wheat Ridge.—
Jennifer McRae,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
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Suddenly Bieber was dancing around, trading fun glances with his fellow-artists, finally gesturing toward the usually obvious fact that a concert might also be an uncomplicatedly good time.—
Vinson Cunningham,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2026
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Brent crude dropped below $90 a barrel after trading above $98 earlier.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Apr. 2026
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Jarvis then spent eight years evading the FBI in Paris, London and Ibiza, after an industrial sized hash-smuggling operation went wrong.—
Richard Johnson,
New York Daily News,
19 Apr. 2026
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This process, however, led to some accusing Gilgan of smuggling full-on undisclosed AI slop into the pages of the paper of record.—
Maggie Harrison Dupré,
Futurism,
9 Apr. 2026
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Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust’s portfolio.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
19 Apr. 2026
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The money most readers never see Best-selling fiction author Jason June decided to push back against the industry’s silence around money by continuously and publicly sharing his own finances and performance through his Ventorship newsletter.—
Josh Rivera,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2026
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“Trafficking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trafficking. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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