How to Use gray market in a Sentence

gray market

noun
  • But for Jeff, there's no gray market in weed in New York.
    Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg.com, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The demand was so intense that a gray market sprang up for them.
    New York Times, 17 Feb. 2021
  • Cettire could be seen as a case study in how a company operates around the gray market.
    New York Times, 24 Aug. 2021
  • But no one wants black or gray market transactions going on in front of their house.
    Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2020
  • Sheehy was still hunting for supplies on the gray market.
    Doug Bock Clark, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2020
  • There haven’t been any accidents publicly known to have been caused by faulty chips purchased on the gray market.
    Bybloomberg, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Still, incentives remain for customers to look to the gray market.
    New York Times, 24 Aug. 2021
  • In the absence of a decision, a bustling gray market has developed.
    Phil McCausland, NBC News, 4 Feb. 2018
  • Bots can be readily purchased on a gray market of websites.
    Craig Timberg and Elizabeth Dwoskin, chicagotribune.com, 7 July 2018
  • Even just outside Virginia, in the nation’s capital, the gray market is thriving.
    Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Other parts of the country, have experienced a similar gray market emerge like the one in Virginia.
    Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The old woman prescribed dried rattlesnake rattles, somehow procured in the gray markets where taxes aren’t paid and questions not asked.
    Mark Davis, ajc, 8 June 2018
  • At one point, demand was so high that the gray market was flooded with disinfectants and hygiene products, the kind that would strip your hands of skin along with any bacteria.
    Ahmed Zambarakji, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Some people have waited hours in lines, crossed state borders for better chances, and delved into an emerging gray market in order to get access to the vaccine.
    Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Feb. 2021
  • Black and gray market sales are available to anyone with an internet connection.
    Brad Branan, sacbee, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Law enforcement oversight has slackened for cannabis, which has put entrepreneurs in a position to sell via this gray market — or even the profitable black market across state lines.
    Phil McCausland, NBC News, 4 Feb. 2018
  • The low sales figures come as the cannabis industry has been complaining about how high taxes and local-government bans are driving consumers to the black and gray markets.
    Brad Branan, sacbee, 9 Apr. 2018
  • There is a thriving gray market for the medication, according to state media, which reported that scalpers in Beijing were selling it for up to $7,400 per box.
    Lyric Li, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The tax incentives have fostered a gray market in buying and then reselling vehicles elsewhere in Europe.
    Brett Berk, WIRED, 6 July 2019
  • Emails showed that Hyman was also aware that there was already a gray market for reselling grams before the launch, although this was prohibited by the agreement investors had signed.
    Darren Loucaides, Wired, 8 Feb. 2022
  • The danger of those markets merging became obvious in 2014 when a man who professed support for the Islamic State group took hostages in a Sydney cafe armed with a gray market shotgun.
    Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Ant was trading at a 50% premium in Hong Kong’s gray market for professional investors.
    Sofia Horta E Costa, Bloomberg.com, 2 Dec. 2020
  • And these are suggested retail prices; a thirsty collector should expect to pay multiples on whiskey’s torrid gray market.
    Nicolas Stecher, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2021
  • Amazon reviews purchased on the gray market or written by generative AI bots?
    Christopher Null, WIRED, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Disorganized rollouts and high taxes can lead to thriving gray markets.
    Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 28 June 2023
  • After New York legalized last year, an unlicensed, gray market emerged in the city while lawmakers set up a framework for legal dispensaries.
    Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Ontario residents spend on online gambling flows to gray market websites.
    Sandra Mergulhao, Bloomberg.com, 2 Nov. 2020
  • But as explained by Bloomberg in December, a semiconductor gray market in China became visible in 2020 due to the global chip shortage.
    Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Those roadblocks have led to a recreational gray market, where shops sell an unrelated good — a T-shirt, herbal tea, digital art — and offer a small amount of marijuana as a gift with purchase.
    Katie Shepherd, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
  • This statement seems to disregard official services like the Steam Community Market and gray market third-party sites that let players trade in-game items for cash and vice versa.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 25 May 2018

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