traffic
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The 10 Freeway was magically devoid of traffic on this gray Saturday morning, and if my car had a soul, it would be like that of a racehorse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Their estimate assumed a Strait of Hormuz reopening on June 1, with tanker traffic, including rerouting, back to 73% of prewar levels by now.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
The Jonesboro Police Department, in the state of Arkansas, shared the moment captured on traffic camera footage, thanking Hellenthal for his actions.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
The threat that OpenAI’s ChatGPT could take away search traffic and erode its more than 90% market share seemed real.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Our friends had been hiding there for some time, waiting for the traffic to clear.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
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There is no evidence Venezuela produces or traffics fentanyl, experts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 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
Like any tech company that traffics in attention, it has every reason to keep users inside the walled garden as long as possible and little incentive to see them graduate.
From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2023
The play traffics in TV tropes and formulas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2023
I can recall but two unconnected lines: "With eye that looks around with asking gaze, And tongue that traffics in the trade of praise."
From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Cottle, Joseph
David and his wife Ally had previously told the BBC that they had no idea the child they adopted from Indonesia could have been trafficked.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
David and Ally say the possibility that Marcus could have been trafficked never once crossed their minds.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Some commuters and bystanders documented encountering the group on public transit and in busy pedestrian areas, with social media posts describing confusion and unease during what was otherwise a heavily trafficked holiday weekend.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
He is a defense attorney who became rich representing underworld figures, including right-wing paramilitary commanders who trafficked cocaine to U.S. cities and Alex Saab, the alleged money launderer for former Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
They helped to distract outsiders from the truly profane event: the growing misalignment of interests between the people who trafficked in financial risk and the wider culture.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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But more often, those fighting trafficking live in their own silos, doing their own work, and often failing or refusing to share even scant details with other jurisdictions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Local police superintendent ANM Sajedur Rahman said authorities lacked the resources to dismantle trafficking networks.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
Although the 2016 peace deal led to the disbanding of large parts of Farc, other armed groups have moved in to fill the vacuum, and often control trafficking routes and the local economies.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
He has a well-documented history of trafficking in conspiracy theories himself, which made his ambiguous invocation of federal involvement a kind of implicit validation to conspiracy theorists that there might be more to the story.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
The government forbade any trafficking in Indian antiquities and had given the priest a general concession, authorizing him to catalogue whatever he found and hand it over to the museum.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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