traffic
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Instead, traffic stands at 50%, including 7 million barrels a day of rerouted pipeline for flows increasingly vulnerable to Red Sea disruption.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
I might throw in a little Kim Petras if traffic is clear, and I’m speeding down the freeway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
The Jonesboro Police Department, in the state of Arkansas, shared the moment captured on traffic camera footage, thanking Hellenthal for his actions.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Oxford Economics fears that if both the Red Sea and the Strait of Hormuz were effectively closed to traffic, the price of oil could eventually pass $160 a barrel.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
Jack pulls us away from the parking space, and we join the line of traffic leading to the exit.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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“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
There is no evidence Venezuela produces or traffics fentanyl, experts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
Although Netflix's action thriller “Black Doves” is set in London, it traffics in its version of this debate when two assassins and a civilian discuss their favorite Christmas movies to pass the time.
From Salon ● Dec. 7, 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
The fort is useless as a defence, being built of mud, and the interior is a mere stock-yard for the Lieutenant-Governor, who traffics in ivory with the vessels which touch here.
From The Cape and the Kaffirs A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland by Ward, Harriet
David and his wife Ally had previously told the BBC that they had no idea the child they adopted from Indonesia could have been trafficked.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 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
They helped to distract outsiders from the truly profane event: the growing misalignment of interests between the people who trafficked in financial risk and the wider culture.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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"Suppose a child is recognised as a trafficking victim and returned to Indonesia, but nobody here knows who the biological parents are because our evidentiary system is weak," said Puteri.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Siebel Newsom was there to watch Newsom sign an executive order that was driven by her work as an advocate for survivors of trafficking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Local police superintendent ANM Sajedur Rahman said authorities lacked the resources to dismantle trafficking networks.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
He has a well-documented history of trafficking in conspiracy theories himself, which made his ambiguous invocation of federal involvement a kind of implicit validation to conspiracy theorists that there might be more to the story.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
But her fight against child marriage and her advocacy to end human trafficking are changing the world.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
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