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Recent Examples of gray market
Mercenary spyware firms employ highly skilled engineers to either develop in-house or purchase software vulnerabilities from gray market firms, known as exploits or zero days, of which manufacturers of consumer devices and applications are not yet aware.
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Ronald J. Deibert, Foreign Affairs, 24 Apr. 2025
These are professional shoplifters backed by criminal organizations that plan large-scale thefts and fence the products on the gray market, often selling across state lines or through the internet.
—Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 2 Apr. 2025
Resellers operating in the gray market have reportedly been using entities registered outside of China to acquire Nvidia’s newest chips, including the Blackwell GPUs—which are prohibited from being sold to Chinese customers—via companies based in Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Nevertheless, reports indicate that gray market resellers are utilizing entities registered outside China to purchase servers incorporating Nvidia’s latest offerings from companies based in several countries, such as Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
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Ronald J. Deibert, Foreign Affairs, 24 Apr. 2025
These are professional shoplifters backed by criminal organizations that plan large-scale thefts and fence the products on the gray market, often selling across state lines or through the internet.
—Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 2 Apr. 2025
Resellers operating in the gray market have reportedly been using entities registered outside of China to acquire Nvidia’s newest chips, including the Blackwell GPUs—which are prohibited from being sold to Chinese customers—via companies based in Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Nevertheless, reports indicate that gray market resellers are utilizing entities registered outside China to purchase servers incorporating Nvidia’s latest offerings from companies based in several countries, such as Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gray market
Noun
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The guns in Trigger are being funneled into the country by the fictional International Rifle Union (IRU), a black market arms dealer with immense political and economic power globally.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
25 July 2025
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Building Custom Malware Threat actors are increasingly using unregulated black market LLMs to create malware that can bypass traditional defenses.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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His comments came on the day India and the United Kingdom finalized their free trade agreement.—
Ganesh Rao,
CNBC,
25 July 2025
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Recto stopped short of revealing which products would potentially be part of the concessions, but said Manila is pushing for a possible free trade agreement with the US.—
Elisabeth Buchwald,
CNN Money,
23 July 2025
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“Gray market.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gray%20market. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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