counterfeit
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While Poland remains Europe's leading country for counterfeit cigarette production, Belgium has become a key base for traffickers looking to offload their low-cost products in markets such as Britain and France.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Other users taking counterfeit versions of retatrutide have reported a range of issues including brain fog, nausea, diarrhoea, a loss of libido and no longer being able to feel any happiness or joy.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said it uncovered a bulk shipment of counterfeit Adidas, Nike and other branded streetwear at a port of entry in early August.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Trading-card grading volume is growing year over year, hitting a record high this April, and so is counterfeit activity.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026
The driver ran a flashlight over the money to be sure it wasn’t counterfeit.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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As Murano island’s glass factories face exorbitant energy costs, a shrinking pool of skilled apprentices and competition from counterfeits, the Seguso brand remains one of the last practitioners of the art form.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Shortly after, DTN said it believed the inflaters were counterfeits manufactured by another company, and that “the related accidents were not necessarily caused by a defect in the inflater.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
The judge accepted that Crowley had inherited the statues from his grandfather and did not at any point believe that they were counterfeits.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
Rolex looked at the multibillion-dollar annual trade in its secondhand watches, which is rife with counterfeits and speculators, and decided it had to intervene.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
Such is his distrust in the justice of his assessors, that he counterfeits poverty, and wishes to appear scarce able to pay any thing, for fear of being obliged to pay too much.
From An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Germain Garnier
The Chinese company, DTN Airbag, has said it doesn’t do business with customers in the U.S. and that it believes the company’s parts have been counterfeited.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The victim’s sister remembers how skillfully Martinez counterfeited compassion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2025
Nine Italian nationals have been arrested and charged with trading in counterfeited goods.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2024
But Leas sees these documents as mostly marketing, and these reports can be counterfeited.
From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2024
Each flower was made of glass or crystal, spun or carved, he could not tell: they counterfeited life perfectly.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
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“It looks like the company’s seemingly blatant attempts at counterfeiting patented weight-loss drugs via compounding finally went too far,” said On the Street Substack author Herb Greenberg.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 9, 2026
The Constitution contemplates Congress having limited law-enforcement powers and even specifies crimes it can punish: treason, counterfeiting, “offences against the law of nations” and “piracies and felonies on the high seas.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
Both men were charged with "counterfeiting medicines or medical products", and the 26-year-old also faces money-laundering charges.
From Barron's ● Dec. 3, 2025
When you see the counterfeiting in “To Live and Die L.A.,” people were fascinated by that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2025
But that rarely happened; the fine for counterfeiting would be enormous: two and a half times the full market value of the genuine animal.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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