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Noun
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When officers arrived, the reporters explained that they had been parked on the east side of Agnes Road against a fence when four tow trucks arrived and arranged themselves around the car, blocking the reporters from the front, left and back.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
18 Apr. 2025 -
Security footage at the residence showed the intruder scaling an exterior perimeter fence in the early morning hours of April 13, authorities said.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
16 Apr. 2025
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Meanwhile, smugglers and bad actors are perpetually advancing their methods for disguising illicit goods, unsafe products and narcotics.—
Kate Nishimura,
Sourcing Journal,
8 Apr. 2025
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The proposal, formally known as ‘Preventing and countering the facilitation of unauthorized entry, transit and stay in the EU’ is nominally designed to modernize Europe’s legal framework to crack down on people smugglers and other vendors who ‘profit’ from irregular migration.—
Frey Lindsay,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
Noun
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His death reportedly was the result of a dispute with a bootlegger.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Mar. 2025
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Childhood friends, Costello and Genovese thrived as bootleggers during Prohibition and rose to the upper ranks of the mob.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
21 Mar. 2025
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The intensifying trade war between the U.S. and China has hurt the equity outlook for both countries, as traders brace for what could be a painful and drawn out negotiating process.—
Sarah Min,
CNBC,
17 Apr. 2025
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His bill would create a Connecticut Electricity Procurement Authority composed of energy traders who would search energy markets daily for favorable price fluctuations.—
Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
16 Apr. 2025
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Searchlight dropped the project following Majors’ legal troubles; the Sundance darling was later picked up by Oscar-winning distributor Tom Ortenberg via his Briarcliff Entertainment.—
Pamela McClintock,
The Hollywood Reporter,
22 Mar. 2025
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Hooper couldn’t find a distributor until Warren Skaaren, then head of the Texas Film Commission, pointed him in the direction of the Bryanston Distributing Company, which took global rights.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
21 Mar. 2025
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Trucks were unloading at Steinbrenner Field throughout the week — seven of them for the home clubhouse alone — and some of them arrived via the Rays’ long-time concessionaire company, which is not going to be their concessionaire this season.—
Chad Jennings,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
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But the changes put concessionaires on the clock, too.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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Ashley manages a team responsible for winning and growing co-brand partnerships across key merchant verticals including travel, retail, every day spend and digital.—
Ashley McGrail,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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While the technology giants all rely on a healthy ecosystem of creators, merchants and influencers to generate content for their sites, changes to their revenue-sharing agreements or algorithms can be devastating.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
7 Apr. 2025
Noun
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James Cecil, a local auctioneer in Hobbs for decades, was a patient of Dr. Cook back then.—
Peter Van Sant,
CBS News,
21 Mar. 2025
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Customers trying to get their hands on one of these eye-catching designer bags often have to scour third-party retailers or auctioneers such as Sotheby's.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Scalper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scalper. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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