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gray market

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as in black market

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Recent Examples of gray market On some looksmaxxing forums, men coach each other on how to administer filler on themselves, with materials obtained on the black or gray market. — Charles Trepany, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026 But the gray market exploded several years ago, after the FDA placed many of them on a list that prohibited compounding pharmacies from making them due to safety concerns. — Will Stone, NPR, 3 Aug. 2026 Currently, some consumers get them online from a risky, unregulated gray market, without ever consulting a physician. — Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 31 July 2026 Recently, Overton has been involved in drafting new policies for the use of peptides, short chains of amino acids that are available on the gray market but that, in many cases, have scant scientific evidence to support their safety or efficacy. — Michael Scherer, The Atlantic, 24 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for gray market

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But the agency said that the level of public interest and available data had led it to expand access to some combinations of peptides and that doing so would discourage the growing gray and black markets for peptides.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2026
Any version consumers have seen online are from the black market and should not be consumed, according to the FDA.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of black market

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Yet throughout his Presidency, Obama largely continued Clinton’s embrace of free trade.

— Dan Kaufman, New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2026
India's free trade deal with the EU, which represents about 25% of global GDP and about a third of global trade, was announced in January.

— Hugh Leask,Lee Ying Shan,Tobias Burns, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of free trade

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