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traffic

[traf-ik] / ˈtræf ɪk /




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Cloudflare operates a globally distributed network instead of centralized data centers, meaning that the company can inspect web traffic and block threats closer to where users are.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

Long queues form at the city's borders as vehicles are stopped and checked, leaving commuters stuck in traffic for hours.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Builders are reporting plummeting traffic and sales, while labor and materials costs are rising.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

As a candidate, she criticized Bass for blocking a plan to install new bicycle lanes through Griffith Park, saying the improvements were urgently needed to reduce traffic deaths.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

“We’re rerouting all traffic onto Burton for the next few hours. I apologize for the inconvenience.”

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

There is no evidence Venezuela produces or traffics fentanyl, experts say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

He’s a young Tokyo laundry plant worker who in his downtime traffics in resold goods at exorbitant markups, with little care for their authenticity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 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

"I suppose your Excellency knows that this man traffics in dead peasants?" he bawled.

From Dead Souls by D. J. Hogarth

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

The precious objects were spirited out and trafficked abroad, including to the US.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

Authorities suspect the primates, known for their shaggy red fur, were trafficked into India, sparking a criminal investigation.

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

COLIC: colicky frolic: frolicked, frolicker, frolicking GARLIC: garlicky mimic: mimicked, mimicking panic: panicked, panicking, panicky picnic: picnicked, picnicker, picnicking POLITICS: politicker, politicking traffic: trafficked, trafficker, trafficking playwright.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

Traditionally, former colonial powers have skirted the issue, expressing regret for the industrial-scale human trafficking but never apologizing for fear that admitting guilt will open the door to a wave of compensation claims.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

The court heard Ionela, of Waterloo Road, Smethwick, was second-in-command in the group but not involved in the trafficking of women.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 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

Another weak idea is easing pressure on the global “shadow fleet” trafficking in sanctioned products.

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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