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
Many said they planned to conceal the symbol to smuggle it into the stadium.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
“How are you going to smuggle him past Lillian?”
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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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
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
Graham Norton once noted that "she uses humour like a Trojan horse, in which she smuggles in all sorts of difficult issues."
From BBC ● May 26, 2024
He's the one who smuggles me my news stories, even a book every now and again, in exchange for helping him with this dark deed or that one.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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However, the Chinese embassy said in its statement that it is "virtually impossible" for an illegal military-grade artillery shell to be smuggled out of China to Papua New Guinea.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
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
While it is true that Booth and Herold have crossed the Potomac, the information actually refers to a group of men smuggled into Virginia on Easter Sunday, not Booth and Herold.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
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He added that allegations the Singaporean company was smuggling chips to China "were thoroughly investigated and debunked last year".
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Lamar became the primary employer in Zulia state, offering cash production bonuses, subsidized food, and medical care in a region with few formal job opportunities outside of border smuggling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
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
Others protect migrants from the police, often at great risk, since they can be accused of immigrant smuggling.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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