traffic
noun
the movement of vehicles, ships, persons, etc., in an area, along a street, through an air lane, over a water route, etc..
traffics
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present tense formof traffic (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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“You’re not going to earn our votes if you bring somebody who we feel traffics in language that is harmful to us,” he said.
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2026
This stomach-churning feature traffics in tropes familiar from ‘The Exorcist’ and other horror movies to tell its Egyptian story.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Genre fiction traffics in extremes that make certain scenarios seem impossible.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2024
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 Joseph Cottle
