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smuggle

[smuhg-uhl] / ˈsmʌg əl /


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The statement from the U.A.E.’s attorney general, Hamad Saif Al Shamsi, signaled that the co-pilot likely didn’t need to smuggle a weapon on board Wednesday’s Flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv.

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

“I’ll see if I can smuggle you out a stand on my next break.”

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

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

Graham Norton once noted that "she uses humour like a Trojan horse, in which she smuggles in all sorts of difficult issues."

From BBC ● May 26, 2024

“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

Six years ago, 26 rare reptiles - 10 of them dead - smuggled inside parcels of toys and sweets from Mexico, were found by customs officials at Cologne Bonn Airport.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 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

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

Even with smuggled food, Janina had gotten thinner and thinner.

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli

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

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

Santicl6 has had to be very careful this time around, smuggling in just a couple of things every few days.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez


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