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Noun
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The umpires ruled the ball hit the padding on the top of the fence then a metal railing and bounced back onto the field.—
Tom Murphy,
arkansasonline.com,
15 Feb. 2025 -
Mowi, the world's largest producer of Atlantic salmon, announced recently that about a quarter of its stock had escaped after a fence was damaged during a storm.—
Christine Rousselle,
Fox News,
13 Feb. 2025
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As the vessel entered U.S. waters, a Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations patrol boat crew turned on its flashing lights and sirens to signal the smugglers to pull over, according to the complaint.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
13 Feb. 2025
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Human smugglers are rampant in this part of the world, meeting the demands of thousands of would-be migrants each year.—
Matt Rivers,
ABC News,
12 Feb. 2025
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The Real McCoy line (named after a famous bootlegger of the 1920s) is distilled at Foursquare is more affordable and easier to find but doesn’t skimp on the quality.—
Jeremy Repanich,
Robb Report,
7 Feb. 2025
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What eliminated the bootleggers wasn’t more prohibition, but legalization, after all.—
The Editorial Board,
Orange County Register,
23 Jan. 2025
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Nadig made the point that technology has become the great equalizer in the markets: everyone has it, meaning getting an edge on other traders who often have the same or similar technology, is difficult.—
Jason Gewirtz,
CNBC,
14 Feb. 2025
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The company also recorded a 1,000% increase in new traders on its services during the week of the Super Bowl compared with the previous week.—
Dan Bernstein,
Sportico.com,
13 Feb. 2025
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This increase was primarily driven by higher supplier and distributor incentives for Pizza Inn. General and administrative expenses decreased slightly to $1.3 million, compared to $1.3 million in the same quarter of the previous year.—
Quartz Intelligence Newsroom,
Quartz,
6 Feb. 2025
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Increasingly, the answer looks to be specialty drug distributors.—
Claire Rychlewski,
Axios,
5 Feb. 2025
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The concessionaire joins the cap table as Elevate plans on opening new offices in 2025 to serve a client roster of more than 1,000 organizations.—
Eric Jackson,
Sportico.com,
9 Dec. 2024
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The company is a major ports operator and the country’s main port concessionaire.—
Annie Correal,
New York Times,
21 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Catherine frequently made off with garments that did not belong to her, stealing coats, dresses, and hats from friends and merchants.—
Mara Bovsun,
New York Daily News,
9 Feb. 2025
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By July, roughly 20% of Temu’s U.S. sales came from those sellers, not merchants based in China, according to e-commerce market research firm Marketplace Pulse.—
Annie Palmer,
CNBC,
6 Feb. 2025
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The affidavit, however, offered evidence to the contrary, and in 2023, Los Angeles auctioneer Michael Barzman admitted to making the fake Basquiat paintings.—
Tessa Solomon,
ARTnews.com,
21 Jan. 2025
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Long gained some notoriety in Congress for his skills as an auctioneer, once using the talent to drown out protesters during a hearing.—
Ben Berkowitz,
Axios,
4 Dec. 2024
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“Scalper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scalper. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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