smuggle
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The Emirati attorney general’s statement signaled that the attacker likely didn’t need to smuggle a weapon on board.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 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
The server maker needed a boost after the federal government charged a Super Micro co-founder and two other individuals—though not the company itself—in an alleged plan to smuggle U.S.-assembled servers to China.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
We hoped that they could smuggle us out of Poland.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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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
Like with gold, the RSF smuggles gum arabic through border points it controls to neighboring countries, including Libya, Chad, Central African Republic and South Sudan.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 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
He's the one who smuggles me my news stories, even a book every now and again, in exchange for helping him with this dark deed or that one.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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Though he added that "smuggled in there is a bit of satire".
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 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
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
Even with smuggled food, Janina had gotten thinner and thinner.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
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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
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
I have personal experience of anti–drug smuggling efforts in the Caribbean.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
Given the rise of machine code breaking and the general decline in smuggling, the “usefulness of my section was therefore in my opinion ended,” she stated.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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