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Recent Examples of illicit O'Brien also did his best to give out illicit gummies to the audience. Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025 Law enforcement faces numerous challenges in closing these establishments, and municipalities are forced to create burdensome ordinances to try to keep these illicit practices out of their communities. Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2025 Beneath the sanctioned renaissance sprang up an illicit counterculture that defied the Soviet cult of reason with occult religion. James Verini, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2025 The committee determined that Gaetz violated a long list of House rules and other standards of conduct, citing prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, special favors or privileges, and obstruction of Congress. Jessica Wang, EW.com, 21 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for illicit
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Adjective
  • Official fireworks shows took place over the city, and illegal pyrotechnics lit up the sky everywhere in between.
    Lisa Beebe, Los Angeles Magazine, 5 July 2017
  • Louisville police say anything that goes into the air or explodes is illegal for average citizens.
    James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 5 July 2017
Adjective
  • Alsup’s order is a temporary measure that requires OPM to notify agencies that its directive was unlawful.
    Ashley Oliver, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Their actions have sparked numerous lawsuits, and on Thursday, a federal judge in California found that the mass firings of probationary employees were likely unlawful.
    Kristin Brown, CBS News, 28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Startled awake in present-day Los Angeles, Ted begins his morning at the offices of Black Lane, a law firm he and his friend, criminal defense attorney Stuart Lane (Josh McDermitt), launched more than a decade ago.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 23 Feb. 2025
  • Then there’s the fact that SMS verification codes are also often at the very heart of many criminal operations.
    Davey Winder, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025

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“Illicit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/illicit. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.

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