as in commerce
the buying and selling of goods especially on a large scale and between different places
nations struggling to compete in the global marketplace
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Recent Examples of marketplace
Secondary marketplaces like StubHub buy up tickets and resell them, sometimes without complete information about seat restrictions.
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Christopher Elliott, Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2026
To get a ticket, most fans will have to turn to secondary ticket marketplaces like Ticketmaster, Stubhub and SeatGeek.
—CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
Amazon shares tumbled 4% in Thursday’s regular session and another 7% in after-hours trading as the earnings and other data points reached the marketplace.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 5 Feb. 2026
And one of those models that a lot of people, for a while, had some hope in was philanthropically minded billionaires who would see the value in what journalism was doing, and also have the capacity to remove it from the marketplace of capitalism, at least to a degree.
—Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2026
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Christopher Elliott, Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2026
To get a ticket, most fans will have to turn to secondary ticket marketplaces like Ticketmaster, Stubhub and SeatGeek.
—CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
Amazon shares tumbled 4% in Thursday’s regular session and another 7% in after-hours trading as the earnings and other data points reached the marketplace.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 5 Feb. 2026
And one of those models that a lot of people, for a while, had some hope in was philanthropically minded billionaires who would see the value in what journalism was doing, and also have the capacity to remove it from the marketplace of capitalism, at least to a degree.
—Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for marketplace
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Crime 101 takes the same view of quid pro quo as the most basic form of American commerce and makes simple but brutal points about value and self-worth, where your car, its year, make and model, matters more than your resumé.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
11 Feb. 2026
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And urgency, not budget or headcount, is the real growth constraint in modern commerce.—
Erik Huberman,
Rolling Stone,
11 Feb. 2026
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What to know about poison dart frogs Found in tropical rain forests in South America, the frogs face risks from habitat destruction and the exotic pet trade.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
15 Feb. 2026
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Sewald came to the Diamondbacks from the Seattle Mariners in a trade deadline deal in 2023 and helped the D-backs make a surprise run to the Fall Classic before losing to the Texas Rangers in five games.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
15 Feb. 2026
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As Farthing was assisting in traffic control, a man approached him from behind and stabbed him in the back, sheriff's office spokesperson Kim Peters said in a news release.—
Matthew Cupelli,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
6 Feb. 2026
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Train traffic was halted overnight at the request of police and resumed Thursday morning, the railway said.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Marketplace.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marketplace. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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