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as in cartels
a number of businesses or enterprises united for commercial advantage
a powerful banking syndicate that controls loans in the small country
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Recent Examples of syndicates
Michelle Gumede,
Los Angeles Times,
13 June 2026
Applying terrorism designations to criminal syndicates, Brazilian officials say, conflicts with domestic legal definitions and risks blurring distinctions underpinning international counterterrorism law.
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Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
1 June 2026
Instead, horses are often owned by sponsors, investors or syndicates.
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Danielle Rossingh,
New York Times,
26 May 2026
For one, the Madlanga Commission — set up to investigate whether criminal syndicates and political actors have burrowed into the police, intelligence, and prosecutorial services — is due to submit its interim report at the end of May.
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Tiisetso Motsoeneng,
semafor.com,
29 Apr. 2026
Greg began creating and submitting comic strip ideas to syndicates, collecting an impressive pile of rejection slips.
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Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Apr. 2026
The criminal syndicates refitted their properties as centres where teams of workers – often trafficked and coerced – run online scams at scale.
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The Week Uk,
TheWeek,
12 Apr. 2026
Caleb Davies, another Kalshi trader who has earned $389,000 in culture markets over the past two years, says that the absence of financial organizations or syndicates of traders with big money allows knowledgeable traders to profit off of people who simply bet on their faves.
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David Hill,
Rolling Stone,
25 Mar. 2026
The four-hour epic by by Aditya Dahr is the sequel to Dhurandhar ($20 million in North American) and stars Ranveer Singh as an undercover Indian intelligence agent working to infiltrate Pakistani politics and Karachi’s criminal syndicates.
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Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
22 Mar. 2026
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Alongside that, South Africa’s police force has been embroiled in scandal, accused of corruption and collusion with criminal syndicates.
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Michelle Gumede,
Los Angeles Times,
13 June 2026
Applying terrorism designations to criminal syndicates, Brazilian officials say, conflicts with domestic legal definitions and risks blurring distinctions underpinning international counterterrorism law.
—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
1 June 2026
Instead, horses are often owned by sponsors, investors or syndicates.
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Danielle Rossingh,
New York Times,
26 May 2026
For one, the Madlanga Commission — set up to investigate whether criminal syndicates and political actors have burrowed into the police, intelligence, and prosecutorial services — is due to submit its interim report at the end of May.
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Tiisetso Motsoeneng,
semafor.com,
29 Apr. 2026
Greg began creating and submitting comic strip ideas to syndicates, collecting an impressive pile of rejection slips.
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Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Apr. 2026
The criminal syndicates refitted their properties as centres where teams of workers – often trafficked and coerced – run online scams at scale.
—
The Week Uk,
TheWeek,
12 Apr. 2026
Caleb Davies, another Kalshi trader who has earned $389,000 in culture markets over the past two years, says that the absence of financial organizations or syndicates of traders with big money allows knowledgeable traders to profit off of people who simply bet on their faves.
—
David Hill,
Rolling Stone,
25 Mar. 2026
The four-hour epic by by Aditya Dahr is the sequel to Dhurandhar ($20 million in North American) and stars Ranveer Singh as an undercover Indian intelligence agent working to infiltrate Pakistani politics and Karachi’s criminal syndicates.
—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
22 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for syndicates
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The initiative is intended to target transnational criminal organizations, foreign gangs, human trafficking networks and violent criminal aliens operating in the United States.
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Prosecutors say the ring operated between 2020 and 2026, transporting dozens of firearms from Georgia to Illinois and Indiana to be distributed to members gangs including the Black Disciples, Conservative Vice Lords and Mickey Cobras.
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The country had spent the last decade grappling with a war between the state and the myriad narco-terrorist cartels.
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Cepeda had participated in and continued throughout the campaign to promote negotiations with guerrillas and cartels.
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This contributes to the overwhelming, but incorrect, sense that college keeps getting more and more expensive.
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With six assists in his World Cup career, Messi contributes to a score of about one in every four games.
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In Dublin and in later Irish protests outside asylum housing, far-right networks and online influencers used digital platforms to intensify grievances and spread anti-migrant views.
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The collaboration comes as demand grows for photonic technologies that can support next-generation telecommunications networks, advanced sensing systems, healthcare applications, and data center infrastructure.
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Analysts also pointed to the chaebol system of family-run conglomerates.
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Brian Roberts spent 24 years building Comcast into one of the largest conglomerates in the US, a juggernaut that owned the media on your screen, the pipelines that delivered it, and the platforms that served it up to you.
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Jimmy Boegle edits and publishes the Reno News & Review and the Coachella Independent in Palm Springs and is a past president of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia.
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Jenkin also edits and scores the time-travel mystery starring George McKay and Callum Turner.
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And thus, the Roswell UFO conspiracies were born.
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Jackson is charged with multiple drug trafficking conspiracies, providing contraband in prison, evidence tampering, firearm offenses, and operating unregistered drones.
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The company that manufactures the hardware powering the AI revolution acknowledges that the technology is more expensive than the people it was supposed to augment.
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His company Fanatics manufactures licensed apparel for the NFL, including Kelce's team, the Kansas City Chiefs.
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“Syndicates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/syndicates. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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