Sentence examples for used illicitly from inspiring English sources

Both substances are believed to be used illicitly now by athletes using conventional methods to increase muscle size and strength.

Another Sony spokeswoman said there was no evidence that the information taken had yet been used illicitly for financial gain.

Preliminary results of an independent scientific laboratory analysis suggest that as much as three per cent of the horse in question is a highly addictive analgesic drug derived from morphine, often used illicitly as a narcotic producing euphoria.

Known for its characteristic leaves, the plant is used in religious practices in India and Africa (and probably elsewhere) and is sometimes used illicitly in the United States and Europe, though its legal status is changing in many places.

The scientific and sports communities are faced with a dilemma: the same genetic transfer techniques that would be used for legitimate medical therapies -- think of an anterior cruciate ligament that does not tear when a ton's worth of defensive linemen tackle a running back -- could also be used illicitly.

A "virgin ccz," or stolen card number that has never been used illicitly and is, therefore, less likely to have been canceled by the real owner, is worth $2 to $3 per credit-card number.

That oversupply feeds the black market: last year 11m Americans used illicitly-acquired prescription painkillers, more than the number who used cocaine, ecstasy, methamphetamine and LSD combined.

The drugs, officially known as anabolic-androgenic steroids, were first developed for medical use, with early abusers mainly using illicitly acquired pharmaceutical supplies.

Merriam-Webster ([2013]), A scam by which an e-mail user is duped into USA revealing personal or confidential information   which the scammer can use illicitly.

The CSTF can remind governments whose citizens use illicitly sourced drugs either recreationally or problematically, that they have a duty of care to support evidence-based policies that reduce the harms of such use.

The following reflections are based on what I got from those films: first, both made it clear that people in high income countries who use illicitly produced and trafficked drugs recreationally (non-problematically) are accessories after the fact to drug war violence/harms in producer and transit communities, including urban neighborhoods.