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Noun
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Investigators can root out fence operators and shut down significant local networks - as in Dallas - but new ones pop up around the country.—
Michael Loria,
USA TODAY,
21 Mar. 2025 -
Members were outside the new fence around Briar East Woods Tuesday, holding signs protesting the project.—
Maya Wilkins,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Mar. 2025
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Brazil raids homes of arms smugglers SAO PAULO -- Brazil's federal police on Thursday raided the homes of smugglers who brought in 2,000 assault rifles from Miami to supply a criminal organization in Rio de Janeiro, authorities said.—
Compiled by Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports,
arkansasonline.com,
21 Mar. 2025
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Authorities said Tin was associated with Kang Juntao, an international turtle smuggler from Hangzhou City, China.—
Brittny Mejia,
Los Angeles Times,
15 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 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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Even so, traders will be looking for any hints of a positive or negative tone in the Fed’s projections and public comments at the close of the panel’s two-day meeting Wednesday afternoon.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA TODAY,
19 Mar. 2025
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For now, traders on Wall Street are largely expecting the Fed to deliver two or three rate cuts by the end of 2025.—
Stan Choe,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Mar. 2025
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Even with Donovan Mitchell in as a distributor, Tyler continues to dribble at the top of the key while the other four Heat players watch him.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
15 Mar. 2025
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However, the film was unable to secure a distributor in the U.S., and its Best Documentary victory category in the 2025 Academy Awards, marked the first time a documentary had won an Oscar without a distribution company attached.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
14 Mar. 2025
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Food will be provided by Legends Hospitality, co-owned by the Yankees’ parent company, instead of Levy Restaurants, Tropicana Field’s concessionaire since 2018.—
Ronald Blum,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Mar. 2025
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In recent years it’s been the concessionaire contracted at Will Rogers State Historic Park, named after Hollywood’s most beloved onscreen cowboy.—
Seth Abramovitch,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 Jan. 2025
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Racers and visitors are advised to not park in any merchant lots.—
Nollyanne Delacruz,
The Mercury News,
19 Mar. 2025
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After all, between January 2024 and Inauguration Day, the U.S. military and its allies conducted over 260 strikes on Houthi targets, but the attacks on merchant and naval assets kept coming.—
The Editors,
National Review,
18 Mar. 2025
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The auctioneer for the night, Oliver Barker, Sotheby’s Europe chairman, got the room’s attention by double tapping his gavel and highlighting the auction’s top lots.—
George Nelson,
ARTnews.com,
5 Mar. 2025
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Correspondent Lee Cowan takes a tour of the auctioneer's 50,000-square-foot warehouse filled with the rare and the ridiculous, and talks with a collector for whom finding their holy grails of fandom can include an actual Holy Grail.—
David Morgan,
CBS News,
28 Feb. 2025
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“Scalper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scalper. Accessed 29 Mar. 2025.
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