traffic
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Food-safety scares in the restaurant business clouded the wraps’ initial impact, but executives hope the new value proposition will boost sales and traffic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Audio recorded on air traffic control details a pilot asking for medical help, describing "a bloody nose" and "some bite marks", according to CBS News, BBC's US News partner.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Air traffic control audio obtained by CBS includes the pilot calling for medical personnel to come to the plane, citing a "bloody nose as well as some bite marks".
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Makeshift barriers formed from shipping containers and razor wire to block traffic to Peshawar's administrative zone remained in place.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
The tires drove onto the smooth pavement, and their speed increased as his father drove them into traffic.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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Like Cook, he traffics in clear-eyed, dispassionate analysis, not partisan wish-casting or political spin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
There is no evidence Venezuela produces or traffics fentanyl, experts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
Genre fiction traffics in extremes that make certain scenarios seem impossible.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 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
He traffics for guests by men-friends' friends' friends, and is sensible only of his purse.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
Spain’s beachside paradise of Costa del Sol has become one of the most trafficked ports of entry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Odisha's forest minister has said investigators are examining whether the animals were trafficked into the country by an international smuggling network and abandoned near a highway.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
“We are proud to answer the call to help trafficked wildlife and are committed to providing immediate care and a sanctuary for all of those that we can help.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
They are heavily targeted by poachers and are considered the most highly trafficked mammals in the world, leaving many species at serious risk of extinction.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
COLIC: colicky frolic: frolicked, frolicker, frolicking GARLIC: garlicky mimic: mimicked, mimicking panic: panicked, panicking, panicky picnic: picnicked, picnicker, picnicking POLITICS: politicker, politicking traffic: trafficked, trafficker, trafficking playwright.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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"Under the guise of the conscription law, these coercive arrests and recruitment drives have effectively transformed into a modern-day slavery and human trafficking enterprise."
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
The two men have previously said they didn’t know Epstein was engaged in sex trafficking and denied being complicit in or knowingly facilitating any crimes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
She says she would expand intelligence-sharing with Washington, work with U.S. agencies and the Coast Guard against drug trafficking and coordinate with Colombia to dismantle criminal groups on the border.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Patel angrily rejected the allegations during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing and lauded the FBI's record in reducing violent crime, fighting drug trafficking and prosecuting fraud.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
In light of new evidence, Matthias Benedik Helvar is granted full and immediate pardon for all charges of slave trafficking.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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