traffic
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Large chunks of concrete could be seen scattered around and inside the collapsed area, while orange traffic cones cordoned off the site as workers surveyed the damage.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
The war in the Middle East has reduced traffic and fees from carriers using their airspace to get to and from the Persian Gulf.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Department of Transportation temporarily shut down traffic in both directions, east and west of Densmore Avenue, and are asking community members to avoid the area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
But by mid-August, traffic for back-to-school vaccinations was still down between 20 and 30 percent, according to Jones.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
What if they were stuck in traffic when the storm hit?
From "I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005" by Lauren Tarshis
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First I thought of Spanish rock star and longtime Los Angeles resident Enrique Bunbury, who himself traffics in the diffuse territories of the ominous and esoteric.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
“You’re not going to earn our votes if you bring somebody who we feel traffics in language that is harmful to us,” he said.
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2026
This stomach-churning feature traffics in tropes familiar from ‘The Exorcist’ and other horror movies to tell its Egyptian story.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Genre fiction traffics in extremes that make certain scenarios seem impossible.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2024
"I suppose your Excellency knows that this man traffics in dead peasants?" he bawled.
From Dead Souls by D. J. Hogarth
Indonesian authorities are working to repatriate five baby orangutans allegedly trafficked to India, where they were found motherless in a forest, Jakarta's forestry ministry told AFP Friday.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Odisha's forest minister has said investigators are examining whether the animals were trafficked into the country by an international smuggling network and abandoned near a highway.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
The Aquarium of the Pacific is part of the Southern California Wildlife Confiscations Network, which helps care for confiscated and trafficked wildlife.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
They are heavily targeted by poachers and are considered the most highly trafficked mammals in the world, leaving many species at serious risk of extinction.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 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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"Obviously, there are many individuals who work for the Russian state who know that the people they recruit to go to the front line are victims of trafficking," Callamard said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
Whether or not it’s fair to compare Take-Two’s investigation of a leaked video game with the DOJ fumbling inquiries into participants of a global sex trafficking ring, the internet has certainly taken notice.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
In a statement, Bank of America said that it maintains it didn’t facilitate sex trafficking crimes and “this resolution allows us to put this matter behind us and provides further closure for the plaintiffs.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
He has blamed trafficking gangs and online misinformation for encouraging people to cross the border.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
The government forbade any trafficking in Indian antiquities and had given the priest a general concession, authorizing him to catalogue whatever he found and hand it over to the museum.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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