smuggle
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For a decade, the Revolutionary Guard used small fishing boats, known as dhows, to smuggle small arms, drone components and missiles out of Iran to the Houthis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
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
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
They begin haggling over a price like I've seen the women in jail do when someone has been able to smuggle in a thing from outside that everyone else wants.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
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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
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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Nvidia has said it complies with applicable export laws and that there is no evidence its chips have been smuggled into China.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 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
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
His father and press had been smuggled out to Watertown.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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The spokesperson added that allegations the Singaporean company was smuggling chips to China "were thoroughly investigated and debunked last year".
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
I have personal experience of anti–drug smuggling efforts in the Caribbean.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
It is unclear why the vessel was in the area or whether it was part of a human smuggling operation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Days later, Egypt's border agency announced that it and the military had begun a sweeping security campaign along the border to foil illegal migration, drug smuggling and illegal mining.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
The US government told its officials on the Canadian border to watch for Worth smuggling the portrait into the United States.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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