gray market
Example Sentences
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“Patients are looking for alternatives, and they are looking not at physicians. They’re looking at this gray market source.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Part of the issue is a vast gray market and lack of regulation.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
There are also questions about how people are obtaining the peptides they want in a regulatory gray market.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 15, 2026
The demand has given rise to a burgeoning gray market, where wellness spas, multilevel marketers and telehealth websites ply the public with vials of “research grade” peptides labeled “not for human use.”
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026
There were also dark secrets people didn’t much talk about, along with a gray market of gossip that could spread the ill-informed rumor as fast as any IM or text network.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
