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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

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

For years, authorities say, Ghomi used an intermediary in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates to smuggle U.S. tech into his home country of Iran, where he is a dual-citizen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

“But I thought he meant Lucius Malfoy to smuggle it into Hogwarts?”

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

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

"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

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

Watch WSJ’s Dasl Yoon explore a phone smuggled out of North Korea.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

When the next vaporetto finally arrived, the boys smuggled themselves onto the boat with the crowd.

From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke

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

Baghdad cited the need to tighten enforcement against smuggling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

I have personal experience of anti–drug smuggling efforts in the Caribbean.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

It is unclear why the vessel was in the area or whether it was part of a human smuggling operation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

His was the topmost room in the Seaman's Rest, a high and spindly building built on a rocky outcrop to facilitate smuggling.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman


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