traffic
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Social media giants usually keep the coding behind these algorithms -- the so-called "secret sauce" that drives traffic to their platforms -- closely guarded.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Also featured in the top slot on several of Wednesday's front pages is air traffic control issues around the UK.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
"It's comfortable enough but the pilots been on every 20 minutes saying they are waiting for information from air traffic control and when he finds anything out he will let us know."
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
But the familiar grids of bicycles and traffic lights haven’t disappeared—at least not yet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
In Atlanta, a police officer directed traffic with a radio held to his ear.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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There is no evidence it produces or traffics fentanyl, which is typically made in Mexico and smuggled over land, experts note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 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
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
“For a show that traffics in pop, that collective energy and that collective effervescence felt like something we could capture like lightning in a bottle.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2022
Courage of a kind they all had, names once written gloriously in history but now merely passports into dubious traffics.
From A Splendid Hazard by Harold MacGrath
"The Sea of Marmara is a heavily trafficked and closely monitored area, it has all the characteristics of a maritime highway," maritime engineer Sabri Gokhan told the private NTV broadcaster.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
“We are proud to answer the call to help trafficked wildlife and are committed to providing immediate care and a sanctuary for all of those that we can help.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
They are heavily targeted by poachers and are considered the most highly trafficked mammals in the world, leaving many species at serious risk of extinction.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
Ruemmler maintained she found Giuffre’s claims of being trafficked by world leaders and American politicians to be inconsistent with what she understood about the evidence that was uncovered in Florida.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Ants trafficked in and out of the eggplants.
From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat
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Whether or not it’s fair to compare Take-Two’s investigation of a leaked video game with the DOJ fumbling inquiries into participants of a global sex trafficking ring, the internet has certainly taken notice.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
Colombia has also joined the "Shield of the Americas," the coalition of countries led by Trump to combat drug trafficking in the region.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
In a statement, Bank of America said that it maintains it didn’t facilitate sex trafficking crimes and “this resolution allows us to put this matter behind us and provides further closure for the plaintiffs.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Fish and Wildlife Service if you suspect someone is trafficking wildlife by contacting 1-844-FWS-TIPS.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 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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