illicit
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Inspections in Ohio jumped 56% since fiscal year 2024, when regulators started seeing illicit retatrutide and other peptides, board data show.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Officers said one of the major challenges for those running the illicit factories was keeping their noisy activities hidden from neighbours.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
“The scale and the systematic nature of the looting demonstrates this is no longer an isolated or opportunistic case,” he said, “but rather a broader illicit trade taking Sudan’s cultural identity and historical legacy.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
The cliff divers, drawn to the thrills of the illicit jumps amplified by social media, reveled in dozens of leaps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
He found that the peasants’ vocabulary didn’t even have a word for illicit drugs, which almost no one could afford anyway.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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