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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

“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

Last month, Sri Lankan customs officials intercepted nine Chinese nationals attempting to smuggle used mobile phones and laptops in the hundreds, raising suspicion they were to be used in large-scale fraud operations.

From Barron's ● May 17, 2026

I used to paint the arms and legs of the princess doll each time the real princess altered her skin color, keeping up-to-date with the scandal sheets Maman used to smuggle past Du Barry.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

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

“Everyone smuggles food out of kitchens. I mean what else are you going to make? Unless it’s smuggled food,” she said.

From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2024

“Young North Koreans think they owe nothing to Kim Jong-un,” said Jung Gwang-il, a defector from the North who runs a network that smuggles K-pop into North Korea.

From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2021

“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

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

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

Zoos, according to the reporting here, were more than happy to populate their exhibits with the rarest reptiles, whether they were smuggled in or not.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

In his last days in prison he tried to keep up the spirits of his fellow inmates and managed to have smuggled out an audio message to his mother.

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

Too many Europeans ignored his rules and smuggled in English goods.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson

The officers have since thwarted roughly 400 master carton smuggling attempts, involving nearly 6,000 pre-labeled shipments of peptides.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Police suspect the network was responsible for smuggling up to 40,000 phones during 2024 and 2025, exporting them to China.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 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

Miller has directed officials to increase investigations into migrant smuggling networks, people familiar with his directives said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Like they’d been caught smuggling diamonds instead of just kissing.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon




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