traffic
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My youth was alarmingly idyllic with the hopped fences, bicycle slaloms through traffic and occasional near-misdemeanor mischief.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
All I see is traffic, roads are still unbuilt, and I’m still having an affordability crisis,’ ” Lavina said.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
Cathay Pacific Airways’ first-half profit rose sharply, supported by increased passenger and cargo traffic despite significantly higher fuel prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Regular traffic at the airport resumed in the early hours of Wednesday but only on the northern runway, while investigators looked for clues on the southern runway.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
In Atlanta, a police officer directed traffic with a radio held to his ear.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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Consign Design traffics in luxury labels like Brunello, Prada, Gucci and Hermès, along with top-drawer skiwear, while Capelet Consign brims with AG, Theory, Veronica Beard and Ulla Johnson.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
He’s a young Tokyo laundry plant worker who in his downtime traffics in resold goods at exorbitant markups, with little care for their authenticity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2025
Like any tech company that traffics in attention, it has every reason to keep users inside the walled garden as long as possible and little incentive to see them graduate.
From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2023
“For a show that traffics in pop, that collective energy and that collective effervescence felt like something we could capture like lightning in a bottle.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2022
Since everybody traffics in law for his own profit, we should like to do the same.
From Essays on Political Economy by Bastiat, Frédéric
They were told the citizenship application was suspended and that Marcus had possibly been trafficked into Singapore.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Some commuters and bystanders documented encountering the group on public transit and in busy pedestrian areas, with social media posts describing confusion and unease during what was otherwise a heavily trafficked holiday weekend.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
The animal, one of the world's most endangered and trafficked mammals, has been stripped of its scales and is being advertised by a Thai account selling "seasonal wild delicacies".
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
He is a defense attorney who became rich representing underworld figures, including right-wing paramilitary commanders who trafficked cocaine to U.S. cities and Alex Saab, the alleged money launderer for former Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Ants trafficked in and out of the eggplants.
From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat
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But more than 20 charities in both countries have said the French-British deal inflicts "further harm on people who have already survived war, torture, persecution, violence, human trafficking, and a treacherous sea journey".
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
A Honduran judge ruled on Monday that former president Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was pardoned last year of US drug trafficking charges by President Donald Trump, can remain free while facing his corruption trial.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
She said her mind leapt to human trafficking, a popular topic in the Facebook groups where she chatted with other surrogates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Jurors cleared Combs of racketeering and sex trafficking charges.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 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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