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traffic

[traf-ik] / ˈtræf ɪk /




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While passenger traffic grew five percent, fares fell two percent as the war led to consumer hesitancy and later bookings.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

These would draw a legal line between licensed psychiatrists and psychologists and the “unregulated swarm of ‘wellness coaches,’ ‘trauma guides,’ and influencers who currently traffic in the language of therapy without any of the accountability.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Chapman confirmed these statements had been made to air traffic controllers.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

At the time, four lanes of traffic ran along Oxford Street and, during the busiest periods, police used loudspeakers to stop shoppers spilling into the road.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

We stopped at the lonesome traffic light and scanned Main Street.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

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

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

Pecker described his business as "checkbook journalism" and agreed with Colangelo that he traffics in "juicy stories."

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2024

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

There are those who expect to gain riches by fraud and deceit, in pursuits and traffics on which the laws of truth, love, and justice, must ever darkly frown.

From Small Means and Great Ends by M. H. (Mary Hall) Adams

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

She called on Ukraine and the leaders of other countries whose citizens were trafficked to provide evidence of this "human trafficking" to prosecute those responsible.

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

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 road was well trafficked, and at night for their comfort there were rude inns to be found.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

The court heard Ionela, of Waterloo Road, Smethwick, was second-in-command in the group but not involved in the trafficking of women.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

As one of the oldest US federal judges, questions had been raised about whether he was the right justice to preside over what could be a prolonged trial for Maduro on drug trafficking charges.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

French investigators have previously examined his real-estate holdings near Paris as part of a probe into alleged money laundering and rosewood trafficking, though the case was dropped in 2023 due to insufficient evidence.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 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

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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