as in syndicate
a number of businesses or enterprises united for commercial advantage
a cartel of oil-producing nations that controls production and influences prices
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Continue reading … PUT ON NOTICE – Trump discusses expansion of drug cartel crackdown, issues grim warning to Iran.
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FOXNews.com, 9 Jan. 2026
Flying coach while cracking down on cartels The decision is particularly striking given Luckey’s profile and the security risks associated with his work.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2026
The same is true of military efforts to go after cartels.
—Jennifer Kavanagh, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2026
The cartel, made up of military officers and senior Maduro administration officials, controlled most smuggling operations in Venezuela with the FARC in Colombia and Sinaloa and Zeta narcotics organizations in Mexico.
—Jay Weaver
january 8, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2026
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In other words, Oklahoma’s largest writer of homeowners insurance was behaving like a crime syndicate.—
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Adams put together a portfolio of his workday doodles and sent it to several newspaper syndicates.—
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Kroenke bought nearly 1 million acres of New Mexico ranchland in December from the family behind industrial conglomerate Teledyne, per The Land Report.—
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Late last year, the company I co-founded, Ben & Jerry’s, became part of a new ice cream conglomerate, The Magnum Ice Cream Company, following the demerger of Unilever’s ice cream business.—
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“Cartel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cartel. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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