illicitly

Example Sentences

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Blanche said the agency would instead target only the terrorists and drug traffickers who illicitly used crypto, not the platforms that hosted them.

From Salon • Jan. 24, 2026

According to separate legal complaints brought by Illinois and Missouri regulators, Gentile and Schneider illicitly collected more than $40 million from GPB’s operations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

But just like the monster in Mary Shelley’s novel, this one is also determined to test the bounds of the life it has been illicitly granted.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2025

In June, the government warned some asylum seekers may be illicitly working as food delivery drivers.

From BBC • Aug. 8, 2025

He was a born anatomist and so devoted to his studies that he sometimes illicitly borrowed limbs, organs, and other parts from cadavers and took them home for leisurely dissection.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson