Example Sentences

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The Dutch West India Company operated ships estimated to have trafficked some 600,000 people into slavery for centuries, according to Dutch state data.

From Reuters • Dec. 6, 2022

The “defendants have trafficked in or benefited from ongoing, unlawful trafficking in the Airport, by arriving and departing the Airport and using its facilities for cargo and passenger transport,” the filing reads.

From Reuters • Sep. 25, 2019

By Dr. Wittig’s estimate, the total amount they may have trafficked accounted for just 10 percent of African ivory smuggled over that period.

From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2018

Both Flynns have trafficked in these kinds of bogus stories many times before.

From Washington Post • Dec. 5, 2016

He might have trafficked in the estates of the Émigres which the Republic was selling at a merely nominal price; but he had no desire to become the owner of what he considered stolen property.

From Which? or, Between Two Women by Kendell, Laura E.