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commerce

[kom-ers] / ˈkɒm ərs /


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When ports aren’t secure, and when protection isn’t assured, the costs of commerce go up.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

Over the next 250 years, the EIC became the most significant non-state actor of its time, transforming world commerce and reshaping the futures of modern Britain, India and China in the process.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

That case, Gorsuch reasoned, was on point here: It foreclosed Flowers’ rule that workers needed to cross state lines or interact with vehicles traveling across borders to engage in interstate commerce.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026

Art and commerce are necessary bedfellows, a truth the Wu-Tang Clan not only knows, but uses to their advantage.

From Salon • May 31, 2026

We go to Jerome’s on Main Street—as head of the chamber of commerce, Dad never lets us buy anything at the Shadbush County Mall, which is outside the town limits.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman




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