smuggled

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Larissa Rodrigues from the Escolhas Institute said that due to a government clampdown, gold that previously "exited Brazil through the front door" was being smuggled out through countries like Guyana or Venezuela.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

Diversity was not smuggled into this agency by ideologues.

From Slate • May 14, 2026

Two months before that, authorities arrested a man after concluding he had smuggled six birds in his boots and six more in his car — two of them dead.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2026

The items are then transported by truck to the southern and western borders where they are smuggled out, according to Sudanese officials and satellite imagery.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 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