smuggle
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Do not smuggle in assumptions from the past.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
The server maker ended an investigation into an alleged scheme by two employees and a contractor to smuggle Nvidia chips to China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
For years, authorities say, Ghomi used an intermediary in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates to smuggle U.S. tech into his home country of Iran, where he is a dual-citizen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
Most recently, the stock fell 33% on March 20 after the U.S. government charged Super Micro co-founder Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw and two other individuals regarding an alleged plan to smuggle U.S.-assembled servers to China.
From Barron's ● May 5, 2026
A few months after they began to go out together, he began to smuggle her into his rooms, where he lived like a helpless, exiled prince.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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Like with gold, the RSF smuggles gum arabic through border points it controls to neighboring countries, including Libya, Chad, Central African Republic and South Sudan.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026
But Walsh smuggles in an entirely different claim beneath these factual details: that Parks was effectively a political actress participating in a manufactured hoax.
From Salon ● May 20, 2026
Treating occurrences as things that exist smuggles confusion into our language and concepts.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2025
Kigali denies UN evidence that it smuggles vast amounts of gold and other metals out of eastern DR Congo and sells them as its own.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2025
El Tirindaro is a subspecies of coyote known as a patero, because he smuggles people into the United States by pushing them across the river on inner tubes while paddling like a pato, or duck.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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Kang noted the influence of South Korean dramas smuggled in on USB drives, finding them "so refreshing and more credible than North Korea state propaganda".
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
As a young man, by his account, he smuggled diamonds, oversaw coconut plantations, dynamited fish, captained schooners and hunted killer cannibals in the New Guinea jungle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Officials explained that such eggs were often smuggled in improvised incubators and in conditions that endangered the welfare of developing embryos and hatchlings.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
In the 1740s, Johann Sebastian Bach smuggled his own surname into his Mass in B Minor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
“They say the sole administrator and his wife were smuggled out in the boot of an old Peugeot 404, o di egwu,” Aunty Ifeoma said, waving around a circular.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Gold-rich areas such as those in River Nile state lie along porous borders in terrain historically associated with cross-border smuggling routes, with artisanally mined gold potentially feeding into those channels.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
In his most recent essay, Amodei reiterated cracking down on unauthorized distillation in countries, such as China, and on chip smuggling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
There are concerns about AI use in schools and workplaces, with students using AI tools to "cheat" on assignments, being wrongly accused of using it and employees "smuggling" it into work.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Miller has directed officials to increase investigations into migrant smuggling networks, people familiar with his directives said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Maybe, just maybe, the book Klaus was smuggling could save their lives.
From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket
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