smuggler
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After a visit home, I returned to campus with a stockpile, like a confectionery smuggler crossing state lines with sugary contraband stuffed between sweatshirts in my suitcase.
From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026
Fewer people are leaving because "not everyone can pay" the elevated costs of the people smuggler, he adds.
From BBC • Dec. 27, 2025
This time, though, the SBU was the smuggler.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 2025
In February, customs officials at Mumbai airport stopped a smuggler with five Siamang Gibbons, an ape native to the forests of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand.
From Barron's • Oct. 31, 2025
Lourdes does consider hiring a smuggler to bring the children but fears the danger.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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