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
The server maker needed a boost after the federal government charged a Super Micro co-founder and two other individuals—though not the company itself—in an alleged plan to smuggle U.S.-assembled servers to China.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
How to smuggle food out of the house when there was barely enough to go round anyway; what to do about Hannie; and how on earth to process what I now knew about Hugo.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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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
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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"Most of these smuggled animals will be in a weak condition... some are given sedatives or even mild anesthetic to keep them from moving or making noise," Thanawadee said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 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
Watch WSJ’s Dasl Yoon explore a phone smuggled out of North Korea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Pesticides prohibited in Kenya are sometimes smuggled across this porous border with Tanzania and used in farms within the Amboseli area, where elephants live near human settlements and are known to raid farms for food.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
She says he’s smuggled in a little gift every day.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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But successive governments have struggled to regulate the country's extensive artisanal and small-scale mining industry, where smuggling and informal trading have made it difficult for the authorities to account for all the gold produced.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 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
Georgia’s Department of Corrections has arrested 18 staff and 92 civilians this year for smuggling contraband into prisons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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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