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traffic

[traf-ik] / ˈtræf ɪk /




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Zillow Z 9.43%increase; up pointing triangle reported a decline in traffic to its apps and sites in the midst of what it called “one of the toughest housing markets in a generation.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

Chief Financial Officer Ian Borden said that checks that included one of those beverages were up roughly 50% compared with the full-day average, with most sold after lunch, when the traffic rush dies down.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

An analysis of U.S. traffic collision records found that fatal crashes involving school-aged pedestrians were roughly twice as likely to occur during dark mornings as after sunrise.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

Shortly after 4 p.m., the CHP said multiple drivers stuck in traffic were making U-turns to go the wrong way and exit off the on-ramp, according to the logs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

“Maybe. If we get up early enough. If traffic doesn’t look awful.”

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn

Like Cook, he traffics in clear-eyed, dispassionate analysis, not partisan wish-casting or political spin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

There is no evidence Venezuela produces or traffics fentanyl, experts say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

Genre fiction traffics in extremes that make certain scenarios seem impossible.

From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2024

It’s especially fitting for “Turtles,” a movie based on a book propped up by an ever-expanding young-adult canon that traffics in the romance of pain and the pain of romance.

From New York Times ● May 2, 2024

With sheep he traffics, if he seek after the praises of foolish men in pious works.

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric

The Daily Express reported, external that the inquiry relates to allegations that women were trafficked to the royal residence in Aberdeenshire.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Spain’s beachside paradise of Costa del Sol has become one of the most trafficked ports of entry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Nawee Changpirom has spent years working to rescue trafficked wildlife in Thailand, but even he can sometimes hardly believe the creatures he has found: leopards, hornbills, and once an anteater.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

Despite this, orangutans continue to be trafficked for sale as exotic pets and to private collectors.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

Ants trafficked in and out of the eggplants.

From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat

Traditionally, former colonial powers have skirted the issue, expressing regret for the industrial-scale human trafficking but never apologizing for fear that admitting guilt will open the door to a wave of compensation claims.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

Several African nationals remained in custody, even though initial findings suggested they may have been victims of human trafficking, officials said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026

Homeland Security Investigations agents typically focused on transnational criminal investigations such as drug smuggling and human trafficking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Between May and July of last year, Polymarket users bet nearly $798,000 on the verdict of the Diddy sex trafficking trial.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

COLIC: colicky frolic: frolicked, frolicker, frolicking GARLIC: garlicky mimic: mimicked, mimicking panic: panicked, panicking, panicky picnic: picnicked, picnicker, picnicking POLITICS: politicker, politicking traffic: trafficked, trafficker, trafficking playwright.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner


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