illicitly
Example Sentences
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Some Western growers believe Chinese growers have been mixing illicitly obtained protected varieties with other blueberry plants, making it harder to enforce intellectual-property claims.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The method is widely used across the industry, but US officials say Chinese firms have deployed it at scale to illicitly copy proprietary American systems.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
He is accused of illicitly purchasing items including luxury goods, jewellery, cosmetics, two cars and a motorhome.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026
Blanche said the agency would instead target only the terrorists and drug traffickers who illicitly used crypto, not the platforms that hosted them.
From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2026
He was a born anatomist and so devoted to his studies that he sometimes illicitly borrowed limbs, organs, and other parts from cadavers and took them home for leisurely dissection.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
