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black marketeer

[blak-mahr-ki-teer] / ˈblækˌmɑr kɪˈtɪər /




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But he had plenty of good to say about the villainous, “picture-making performance” of late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who played the extremely dangerous black marketeer Owen Davian.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 11, 2023

Or he has shape-shifted into Orson Welles’s Harry Lime — the oily, amoral black marketeer at the center of the 1949 film noir “The Third Man.”

From Washington Post Jul. 12, 2022

Already Turkey has the makings of a bomb program: uranium deposits and research reactors — and mysterious ties to the nuclear world’s most famous black marketeer, Abdul Qadeer Khan of Pakistan.

From Seattle Times Oct. 20, 2019

To follow the money within the Islamic State, Mr. Cohen must track the group’s oil sales from black marketeer to black marketeer until the cash finally ends up traceable in a bank or financial institution.

From New York Times Oct. 21, 2014

“The weak perish in Gone With the Wind,” said the former black marketeer.

From Time Oct. 25, 2012




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