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Noun
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Ruth Couch was one of dozens of volunteers who spent Martin Luther King Jr. weekend painting wooden panels that will become pieces of the site fence.—
Sierra Lopez,
The Mercury News,
3 Feb. 2025 -
Many responses argued the neighbors should’ve stayed on their side of the fence while advising the pet owner to set up cameras in her yard.—
Latoya Gayle,
People.com,
2 Feb. 2025
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Rosa travelled north some twelve hundred miles, on foot and by bus, paying smugglers and eluding predators.—
Dexter Filkins,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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Migrants who elude capture walk as long as two days in the wilderness before arriving at smugglers’ vehicles.—
Eugene Garcia,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Jan. 2025
Noun
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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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This episode, in which Prohibition is reinstated in Springfield and Homer becomes a bootlegger known as the Beer Baron, pursued by an Elliot Ness-type crime fighter named Rex Banner, is one such episode.—
Jesse David Fox,
Vulture,
17 Dec. 2024
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Her barely teenage mother disappeared when Smith was still a toddler; her much older father, a horse trader, moved frequently, taking his young daughter with him.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
30 Jan. 2025
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She was born in 1940 on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana, where she was raised by her father, a horse trader.—
Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
29 Jan. 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
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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 16 Feb. 2025.
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