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traffic

[traf-ik] / ˈtræf ɪk /




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But the scheme has proved controversial among residents worried about traffic jams in neighbouring areas as well as among disability rights activists.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

“These offerings not only support repeat traffic but often succeed in driving a higher average ticket as people combine meals from multiple plates or simply add-on to existing entrees,” said JPMorgan analysts.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

They fear the displacement of traffic on to their roads, with buses, taxis and bikes being rerouted to adjacent streets.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Archer cited the Texas cities’ high traffic volume as a potential benefit of the fleets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

The tires drove onto the smooth pavement, and their speed increased as his father drove them into traffic.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

“You’re not going to earn our votes if you bring somebody who we feel traffics in language that is harmful to us,” he said.

From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2026

Consign Design traffics in luxury labels like Brunello, Prada, Gucci and Hermès, along with top-drawer skiwear, while Capelet Consign brims with AG, Theory, Veronica Beard and Ulla Johnson.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025

It’s especially fitting for “Turtles,” a movie based on a book propped up by an ever-expanding young-adult canon that traffics in the romance of pain and the pain of romance.

From New York Times ● May 2, 2024

Pecker described his business as "checkbook journalism" and agreed with Colangelo that he traffics in "juicy stories."

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2024

A scheme for the repristination of passenger and goods traffics over Irish waterways, when freed from weedbeds.

From Ulysses by James Joyce

Spain’s beachside paradise of Costa del Sol has become one of the most trafficked ports of entry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Indonesian authorities are working to repatriate five baby orangutans allegedly trafficked to India, where they were found motherless in a forest, Jakarta's forestry ministry told AFP Friday.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

Odisha's forest minister has said investigators are examining whether the animals were trafficked into the country by an international smuggling network and abandoned near a highway.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

The Aquarium of the Pacific is part of the Southern California Wildlife Confiscations Network, which helps care for confiscated and trafficked wildlife.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Ants trafficked in and out of the eggplants.

From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat

The Undersecretary for the Philippines Department of Justice, Nicholas Ty, told the BBC that "the matter is currently being investigated" by an anti-human trafficking and child sexual exploitation task force in Cebu.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Homeland Security Investigations agents typically focused on transnational criminal investigations such as drug smuggling and human trafficking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

French investigators have previously examined his real-estate holdings near Paris as part of a probe into alleged money laundering and rosewood trafficking, though the case was dropped in 2023 due to insufficient evidence.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

The European Union plans to use a proposed sanctions regime to target human traffickers, freezing their assets and imposing travel bans, the European Commission said regarding a new strategy against trafficking, Risk Journal reports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

In light of new evidence, Matthias Benedik Helvar is granted full and immediate pardon for all charges of slave trafficking.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo


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