How to Use cartel in a Sentence

cartel

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  • The cartel members drove them from place to place around the city.
    — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Both the cartels and the government have a stake in how water is used.
    — Outside Online, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Most who did asked not to be named, citing the volatility of the cartel.
    — Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Two died when caught in the crossfire of rival drug cartel groups.
    — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 10 Mar. 2023
  • It was discovered the drugs were being supplied by the cartel, and the case opened wide.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2022
  • On top of this, a cartel now controls the area where Sanchez is from in Mexico.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2022
  • There is a lot of art talking about amazing things at the border that is not just about the fence and about drug cartels.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2023
  • Scott Lawson, a rookie FBI agent at the time, broke the case that led to a high-stakes mission to topple the cartel.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2024
  • Since then, the cartel has been raising output bit by bit.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Prices are also higher ahead of a meeting next week of the OPEC oil cartel.
    — Joe Taschler, Journal Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2022
  • We're derailed from this track when the priest slides into the cartel warehouse.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2024
  • But fentanyl is so easy and cheap to make that when cops capture a big batch, cartels just churn out more.
    — Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 20 June 2024
  • In Season 1 of the series, the family fled agents, the cartel, and hitmen.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Not to mention, there are no drugs, no guns, there are no cartels, there are no zombies.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Guides paid by the Sinaloa cartel, leading people through one of numerous gaps in the wall.
    — Longreads, 23 Feb. 2024
  • And the cartel controls its employees with an iron fist.
    — Steve Fisher, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Gus tries to calm things down with the cartel while Mike finishes up business north of the border.
    — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 18 July 2022
  • Guides paid by the Sinaloa cartel, leading people through one of numerous gaps in the wall.
    — Longreads, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Yes, that Stephen Sondheim; yes, that 2015 thriller about the world of Mexican drug cartels.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2024
  • The morning after the killings, Boudreaux declared that the violence was likely the work of a drug cartel.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Just like the cartel, and Big Pharma—these are bodies who don't get taken down.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 2 May 2022
  • This also meant the Byrdes would no longer be indentured to the cartel or the U.S. government.
    — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 2 May 2022
  • The cartel operatives take them to the border and drop them off near the break in the wall, according to the official.
    — Mireya Villarreal, ABC News, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Guides who work for the cartels offer to lead entire families across the border through the desert.
    — Ally Schweitzer, NPR, 6 May 2024
  • Agents wrote in court records that the brothers bought drugs from a cartel in Chihuahua, Mexico.
    — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Pluma has performed several songs from the POV of a Sinaloa cartel member.
    — Vulture, 14 Sep. 2023
  • What if Crooks did have ties to a terror group, or violent cartels?
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 31 July 2024
  • While the family was able to leave the cartel behind, we're left with the sense that a new problem (and a new crime) will always be just around the corner.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 4 May 2022
  • Read Part 2: How an informant nearly brokered a cartel alliance and Part 3: A mobster helped the feds arrest drug dealers.
    — Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Hunting isn’t exactly the same as infiltrating a high-security Siberian prison and killing a cartel boss.
    — Mark Kennedy, Boston Herald, 13 Dec. 2024

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