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smuggle

[smuhg-uhl] / ˈsmʌg əl /


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Super Micro also recently completed an investigation into an alleged scheme to smuggle Nvidia chips into China.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

Do not smuggle in assumptions from the past.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

He adds that he believes groups linked to the regime are now trying to smuggle more fuel to take advantage of rising prices caused by the war.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 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

So he had brought the goblet home again, because of the quarrel with Setma, no doubt, because he had so far found no other riverman who would smuggle his treasure out of Thebes.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

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

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

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

However, the Chinese embassy said in its statement that it is "virtually impossible" for an illegal military-grade artillery shell to be smuggled out of China to Papua New Guinea.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

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

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

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

He was a red, green, and yellow parrot that had been smuggled from Mexico by Don Pancho, an undocumented farm worker who was my father’s friend.

From "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" by Francisco Jiménez

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

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

Mahmoud Ali Youssouf also stressed the urgent need to "address the root causes of irregular migration, combat migrant smuggling and trafficking in persons, and promote safe, orderly and regular migration".

From Barron's ● 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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