merchant

Example Sentences

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“In the short term, navies are not expected to escort merchant ships,” Larsen wrote.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

“In the short term, navies are not expected to escort merchant ships,” Larsen wrote.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

Before PayPal transformed into a multibillion-dollar company with 23,800 employees and 439 million active consumer and merchant accounts across roughly 200 markets, the startup weathered a lot of change.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Chemaf’s founder, Shiraz Virji, son of a Zanzibar spice merchant, once hired dozens of Gurkhas, Nepalese soldiers with a reputation for fierceness, to guard one of the company’s mines against incursions by informal miners.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

OPPOSITE: An image of one of the “curiosity cabinets” Maria visited in Amsterdam, belonging to the Dutch East Indies merchant Livinus Vincent.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman