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
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
Independent benchmarks confirm that Pangram outperforms every other detector tested and is robust against “humanizers,” or software designed to smuggle A.I. text past detectors.
From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026
“If this was the plan, what was the point to trying to smuggle in those lockpicks?”
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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Like with gold, the RSF smuggles gum arabic through border points it controls to neighboring countries, including Libya, Chad, Central African Republic and South Sudan.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 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
El Tirindaro is a subspecies of coyote known as a patero, because he smuggles people into the United States by pushing them across the river on inner tubes while paddling like a pato, or duck.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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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
Zoos, according to the reporting here, were more than happy to populate their exhibits with the rarest reptiles, whether they were smuggled in or not.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
In his last days in prison he tried to keep up the spirits of his fellow inmates and managed to have smuggled out an audio message to his mother.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
According to the real Asa, their parents had smuggled her out of the village at a young age but weren’t able to take Yuru with them.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
Then she wrote a short, simple note, and with Laurie’s help, got them smuggled onto the study table one morning before the old gentleman was up.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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Western forces including Israel could train and support designated Syrian and Lebanese units to target smuggling networks with the help of advanced monitoring systems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Globalization suddenly gave money and means for people to move; smuggling networks rose up; smartphones provided instant feedback on the best routes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Prosecutors also have detained seven people, including an Nvidia worker, in a separate case involving the alleged smuggling of the US tech giant's AI chips to China.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Railroad cars seized by federal authorities in Mexico as part of its wide-ranging investigation into fuel smuggling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
No one else dared enter, and while the gyptians kept the peace and traded fairly, file landlopers turned a blind eye to the incessant smuggling and the occasional feuds.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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