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merchants

noun

plural of merchant

as in traders

a buyer and seller of goods for profit free trade agreements that are favored by merchants on both sides of the border

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Recent Examples of merchants As the exhausting history of credit-card fraud and data breaches suggests, too many sites and merchants still don’t understand their assignment. — Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026 Google says its simplified checkout experiences include retailers such as Nike, Sephora, Target, Ulta Beauty, Walmart and Wayfair, along with many Shopify merchants. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026 Owning the Discover payment network allows the company to collect more of the fees merchants pay when customers use their cards — like American Express , which issues cards and owns its payment network. — Alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2026 Meanwhile, in a separate report from Hostinger, the agentic platform company, suggests that online merchants prepare now to maximize Black Friday sales. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2026 Born in 1865 into a wealthy family of landowners and wine merchants, Fayet learned to paint alongside his father and uncle, both amateur artists. — Julie Coe, Architectural Digest, 20 Oct. 2026 Another tricky thing about the Arizona site was that it had been severed from its links to local merchants. — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026 The ministry had been asking merchants to pay about $3,226 per truck entering Gaza, Sheheiber said. — Sam Metz, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026 The ministry had been asking merchants to pay 10,000 shekels (about $3,226) per truck entering Gaza, Sheheiber said. — ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026

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The building was under construction on a busy commercial street in the Eastleigh area, which is often crowded with thousands of traders and residents.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
The ever-rising risk premium demanded by investors for holding those bonds shows that traders are still unconvinced that the French government has a plan to resolve its budget crisis.

— Jim Edwards, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026

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Around them was a constellation of auction house representatives, private dealers, and artists.

— Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 22 Oct. 2026
Evan Reiser, a director at Bortolami manning the booth in Paris, said dealers typically hire their own art handlers and shipping companies, so the biggest headache will be rearranging schedules that were already in place.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 22 Oct. 2026

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