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Recent Examples of camorra
The investigations lead Nikki to secret deals between the U.S. Navy and the camorra, a syndicate of organized crime families in Naples.
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Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2024
In the struggling city of Naples, stereotyped by other Italians as superstitious and controlled by the camorra, Maradona was received like a homecoming god.
—Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 8 Dec. 2021
Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2024
In the struggling city of Naples, stereotyped by other Italians as superstitious and controlled by the camorra, Maradona was received like a homecoming god.
—Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 8 Dec. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for camorra
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Russia does not have institutions so much as a camarilla of oligarchs around the leader.—
Robert D. Kaplan,
WSJ,
23 Mar. 2018
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Now, he's pardoned all of these people, despite the fact that they were convicted of violently assaulting police officers, conspiring to overthrow the government of the United States in seditious conspiracy, and so on.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
17 May 2026
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Shannon Kurrie, 61, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud in the scheme earlier this month, according to the federal agency.—
Nick Lentz,
CBS News,
16 May 2026
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Frey, a seventh-generation basket maker, joins a long line of Wabanaki people (his tribe, the Passamaquoddy, is part of this larger confederacy) to practice the age-old craft.—
Hannah Martin,
Architectural Digest,
1 May 2026
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However, a pro-Union group headed toward Arizona to stop this forward movement of the confederacy.—
Paige Moore,
AZCentral.com,
23 Mar. 2026
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Hospitals that haven’t been looted, burned or shuttered are dealing with limited budgets and the tightening grip of armed gangs.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
14 May 2026
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But according to federal officials, the Punjabi Devils were an outlaw gang with ties to the Hells Angels, whose members often wore patches with an outline of Punjab, a region that includes northern India and central eastern Pakistan, and a turbaned skull.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA Today,
14 May 2026
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Cabrera fled her small town Friday after years of mounting cartel violence in Tula.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 May 2026
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And then with this new administration and new focus on the Mexican cartels, superseding indictment was handed down just in March where this scheme and the people who own this shop were involved in aiding terrorism because these cartels have been designated as foreign terrorists.—
Dana Taylor,
USA Today,
15 May 2026
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For example, in 2017, QAnon participants claimed that there was a secret cabal of satanic pedophiles trafficking children, so by this faulty logic, the subsequent Epstein revelations must be evidence that QAnon was right.—
Matthew N. Hannah,
The Conversation,
8 May 2026
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Citizens with issues in and around Los Angeles plead their case before the cabal of elites, from Hugh Jackman on his knees begging for permission to rebuild his Pacific Palisades home, to a mother raising alarm about the homeless population outside her child’s school.—
Lorraine Ali,
Los Angeles Times,
6 May 2026
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Their respective drives – vengeance for her, justice for him – build toward a final confrontation with the syndicate.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
16 May 2026
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The largest Mafia trial in Italian history targeted the Ndrangheta, the massive Calabrian syndicate that's been operating since the 19th century, with tentacles reaching into the upper echelon of business and government.—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
15 May 2026
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Nuuly, a $98-a-month fashion subscription service, has come to dominate sorority houses and everywhere else, tapping a desire to wear more clothes while owning less.—
Ashley Fetters Maloy,
Washington Post,
14 May 2026
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Viewers may know Addicks from HBO Max’s 2023 documentary Bama Rush, which pulled back the curtain on the sorority recruitment process at the University of Alabama.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
12 May 2026
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“Camorra.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/camorra. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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