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

The security of those materials has been an ongoing concern, with several serious incidents of uranium being illicitly sold in the years since.

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2025

The feeling of illicitly eavesdropping nudges us to pay attention to how these characters rarely say what they mean and change personalities depending on who else is in the room.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 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