scalper

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Noun
  • Then in September, a Secret Service agent spotted the muzzle of a rifle sticking out of a fence in bushes at Trump's West Palm Beach golf club while scouting the course ahead of Trump.
    Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025
  • The veterans hall’s roof is parallel to St. Louis Avenue, with just a decorative black fence separating the top of the building from traffic.
    PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • In a separate incident, two human smugglers were sentenced May 15 after a series of high-speed chases near the border.
    Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 24 May 2025
  • And the smugglers’ knack for evolving and evading authorities also appears unchanged.
    Aarne Heikkila, NBC news, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • Or Telfar’s reimagining of Canal Street bootleggers as craftspeople, just as important as their Italian counterparts.
    Jeremy O. Harris, Vogue, 16 Apr. 2025
  • The iron law explains why bootleggers smuggled whiskey instead of beer or wine during alcohol prohibition.
    John C. Goodman, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • The acronym — which stands for Trump Always Chickens Out — was coined by a Financial Times columnist and has since been adopted by traders attempting to navigate the dozens of changes to tariff policy Trump has announced over the early months of his presidency.
    Bloomberg, Oc Register, 28 May 2025
  • Professional traders and algorithms move faster than retail investors, digesting and acting on information in milliseconds.
    Adam Sarhan, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • That’s up from 12 percent in March and marks YouTube’s third straight month leading all distributors in share of TV usage.
    Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 27 May 2025
  • By the age of 25, Chung opened his first business, Nova Imports, and became a distributor for luxury Italian designer Emilio Pucci.
    Tanya Benedicto Klich, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025
Noun
  • Yurts with views at State Forest State Park in Gould Yonder Yurts became the new concessionaire in Colorado’s State Forest Park in January 2024 and started the buildout process that June.
    Brittany Anas, Denver Post, 15 May 2025
  • Trucks were unloading at Steinbrenner Field throughout the week — seven of them for the home clubhouse alone — and some of them arrived via the Rays’ long-time concessionaire company, which is not going to be their concessionaire this season.
    Chad Jennings, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Reasonable Existing Debt Got stacked high-interest loans or merchant cash advances?
    Matthew Meehan, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
  • The American military sees the civilian merchant fleet and shipbuilding industry as strategic assets in wartime.
    Caleb Petitt, National Review, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • The others were anonymous ad hoc chairs from the mid-nineteenth century to the present from the collection of auctioneer Avi Kovacevich, who had been inspired by Wolf’s project in China.
    Glenn Adamson, Artforum, 1 June 2025
  • The auction of desserts will start at 6 p.m. led by auctioneer Matt Goram.
    Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2025
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“Scalper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scalper. Accessed 7 Jun. 2025.

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