smuggle
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In March, Super Micro said that co-founder Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw resigned from the server maker’s board of directors after being indicted for his alleged role in a scheme to smuggle high-end Nvidia chips to China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 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
Federal authorities charged a Daly City man in an international trafficking plot to smuggle nearly 300 poached loggerhead musk turtles from Florida to Taiwan.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
Sahand says he has sent a dozen to Iran since January and "we are actively looking for other ways to smuggle in more".
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
How to smuggle food out of the house when there was barely enough to go round anyway; what to do about Hannie; and how on earth to process what I now knew about Hugo.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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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
Talking about “Key to the Highway,” the Little Walter song, for example, he smuggles in this comment: “I have gotten lots of keys to different cities but I’ve never really tried to inspect anything yet.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2022
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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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
Journalists and some White House staff on board did not know the US president had been smuggled out as part of an elaborate ruse in response to a possible Iranian threat.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
A video also smuggled out of prison showed him singing a patriotic song in the prison yard ahead of execution.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
She had smuggled a squirrel into the house.
From "Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures" by Kate DiCamillo
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A drop in small boats illegally reaching the UK is forcing people smuggling gangs to adopt new tactics, a BBC investigation has found.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
The BBC has previously asked the Iranian government to comment on the allegation that it is involved in the fuel smuggling.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
The Maryland man deported last year by mistake already had his federal indictment on human smuggling charges dismissed over vindictive prosecution, but now, the Justice Department is demanding the indictment be brought back.
From Slate ● Aug. 23, 2026
He listed several activities that he said need to stop immediately: "oil smuggling, swap lines, cash transfers, exchange houses, ship registries, front companies."
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
“I don’t quite understand the need for all this secrecy. Don’t law enforcement agencies usually want to publicize big arrests? Aren’t smuggling busts public information?”
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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