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
As part of the new effort, which he called “Operation Economic Outcast,” Bessent said his department has “mapped every node, every facilitator and every network that Iran has used to smuggle oil and evade sanctions.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 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
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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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
The Wall Street Journal’s Dasl Yoon and a former North Korean soldier examine a smartphone that was smuggled out of the world’s most reclusive nation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 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
“They say the sole administrator and his wife were smuggled out in the boot of an old Peugeot 404, o di egwu,” Aunty Ifeoma said, waving around a circular.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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He was one of five men arrested on Tuesday during a probe into the alleged smuggling, external of two vehicles into Zimbabwe, online news site The New Zimbabwe reports.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
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
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
He's grateful to Michah for smuggling us, but it's still hard for him to push away the image of Michah and me together.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
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