How to Use procurer in a Sentence

procurer

noun
  • In two hours, unbeknownst to her procurers, the new girl was picked up in a general pross bust.
    — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Sep. 2017
  • Sakaguchi confessed to serving as a procurer, bringing the victim to Sono and leaving her alone with him.
    — William Earl, Variety, 6 Apr. 2022
  • The country, for example, has become the world’s largest procurer of LED light bulbs.
    — Arunabha Ghosh, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
  • Those storms, says Esther von Roehm, a timber procurer who worked for the local magnate that owned the spruce, were traumatic.
    — National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2020
  • This uncertainty has led to most people playing it safe with Ederson as their City clean sheet procurer.
    — SI.com, 25 July 2019
  • The procurer of those apples would be her husband, who goes by Ned, and their would-be consumer the couple’s 10-year-old son, Bear.
    — Susan Dominus, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for acting as Epstein’s procurer of young girls.
    — Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Some procurers, however, may take deeper cuts of skin that are more disfiguring, and may expose muscles, fascia and other structures.
    — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Kennedy was named for Eddie Moore, a longtime family factotum (and sometime procurer for Joe).
    — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2020
  • By focusing on the entire lifecycle of a product, business stakeholders become stewards of resources rather than procurers or vendors.
    — Bybob Meers, Fortune, 15 May 2024
  • Perhaps this experience will convince Pentagon procurers to place more value on mature airframes, even if offered at higher prices.
    — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 23 June 2023
  • Ghislaine Maxwell was, according to her accusers, Jeffrey Epstein's protector and procurer, his girlfriend and his madam.
    — Marc Fisher, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Aug. 2019
  • But the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which oversees the procurers, has never revoked any operating charters.
    — Lenny Bernstein, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The past several decades of technology policy have been treated as a narrow technical affair, the domain of scientists, industry CEOs, procurers, and lawyers.
    — Vilas Dhar, Time, 10 June 2026
  • He was convicted for his role as, essentially, a procurer for navigational equipment, including a boat, to be used in al-Qaida missions attacking commercial ships in and around the Arabian Peninsula waters.
    — Carol Rosenberg, miamiherald, 2 May 2018
  • According to the criminal case against her, Maxwell’s role shifted to being one of a procurer, finding very young — often underage — women and girls to introduce to Epstein and his group of extremely rich and influential friends in the early 2000s.
    — Julia Reinstein, Rolling Stone, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Ties reached their lowest ebb in January 2010 after the Israeli security service Mossad dispatched a 27-strong death squad to Dubai to assassinate Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a senior weapons procurer for Hamas.
    — Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Also, Wasserman in recent weeks assured individuals at his company and LA28, that besides the 2002 humanitarian trip with Epstein, there was nothing more to come from his involvement with the shady financier and his procurer Maxwell.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2026

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