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smuggle

[smuhg-uhl] / ˈsmʌg əl /


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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

“Like finding out that people were literally trying to smuggle giant vats of ranch,” said Stacy Stokes, the brand’s vice president of marketing and sales.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Federal authorities charged a Daly City man in an international trafficking plot to smuggle nearly 300 poached loggerhead musk turtles from Florida to Taiwan.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

They make it sound like people smuggle them into houses.

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas

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

Neither simplistically optimistic nor preachy, “Hoppers” smuggles timely ideas inside a rodent body.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026

Treating occurrences as things that exist smuggles confusion into our language and concepts.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2025

“He smuggles in bread sometimes and sells it—for a price. I’ll buy us a little something to eat. You’ve saved us, Yanek!”

From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz

Six years ago, 26 rare reptiles - 10 of them dead - smuggled inside parcels of toys and sweets from Mexico, were found by customs officials at Cologne Bonn Airport.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Jeremy told the Supreme Court: "There was no reason why, if Ben Field had smuggled Dalmane into Peter Farquhar's food or drink that night, he would have restricted himself to a therapeutic dose."

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Traffickers have shifted from major gateways like Le Havre in Normandy to smaller ports to evade controls, while airliners bring additional supplies smuggled from French Guiana and French islands in the Caribbean.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

"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

They would see to it that no tea was smuggled ashore and that no harm was done to the ships.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

He added that allegations the Singaporean company was smuggling chips to China "were thoroughly investigated and debunked last year".

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 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

That deal was officially "aimed at assisting the authorities in securing mining sites, improving tax collection mechanisms and curbing cross-border smuggling of minerals", the group's report added.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

No one else dared enter, and while the gyptians kept the peace and traded fairly, file landlopers turned a blind eye to the incessant smuggling and the occasional feuds.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman


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