black market
Example Sentences
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Last season, BBC Sport exposed the black market of top-flight tickets available for resale online, which circumvent UK laws against ticket touting by being based abroad.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
She added that stakeholders had expressed concerns that more regulation could push problem gamblers onto the black market.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
California’s Assembly Bill 1127 does not explicitly name the Glock brand, but instead targets any handgun with a specific mechanism that can easily be converted by a black market device.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
With fuel trading hands at around $8 per liter on the black market, even a short taxi ride can swallow most of a civil servant's wages.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
He had been trying to organize a Kitchen Workers’ Union and had recently charged the camp’s chief steward, a Caucasian, with stealing sugar and meat from the warehouses to sell on the black market.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
