smuggle
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Do not smuggle in assumptions from the past.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Last Thursday's arrest follows that of a 23-year-old Thai citizen in July, also caught at Johannesburg's OR Tambo International Airport, who was attempting to smuggle 418 parrot eggs.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
In March, Super Micro said that co-founder Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw resigned from the server maker’s board of directors after being indicted for his alleged role in a scheme to smuggle high-end Nvidia chips to China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 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
Together they smuggle the wire home and loop it back and forth through nail holes in the eave outside the attic window.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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After the war, when the princess decides to defect to the West, a river-barge captain nicknamed St. Peter smuggles her past communist guards in a sealed, nearly full water tank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
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
I’ve learned a bit about evolution thanks to the books and newspapers Jackson smuggles me, and the comparison doesn't sit well.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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Though he added that "smuggled in there is a bit of satire".
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 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
In the 1740s, Johann Sebastian Bach smuggled his own surname into his Mass in B Minor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
The BBC has seen evidence that oil is being smuggled across the border from Iran to Pakistan en masse by bikers, some as young as 15.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
She bends to her special beauty, the butterfly orchid she smuggled back from Hawaii two years ago.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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Homeland Security Investigations agents typically focused on transnational criminal investigations such as drug smuggling and human trafficking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
I have personal experience of anti–drug smuggling efforts in the Caribbean.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
Mahmoud Ali Youssouf also stressed the urgent need to "address the root causes of irregular migration, combat migrant smuggling and trafficking in persons, and promote safe, orderly and regular migration".
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
Greg Lui, 38, of San Gabriel, California, faces charges of conspiracy to violate export control laws, outbound smuggling and conspiracy to commit money laundering, the Justice Department said Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
The unbumt king supplied some names, and Dolorous Edd had done the rest, smuggling them from Mole’s Town.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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