smuggle
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Last Thursday's arrest follows that of a 23-year-old Thai citizen in July, also caught at Johannesburg's OR Tambo International Airport, who was attempting to smuggle 418 parrot eggs.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
The server maker ended an investigation into an alleged scheme by two employees and a contractor to smuggle Nvidia chips to China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Many said they planned to conceal the symbol to smuggle it into the stadium.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
For years, authorities say, Ghomi used an intermediary in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates to smuggle U.S. tech into his home country of Iran, where he is a dual-citizen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
We made it to the wall and practically dove through the two-brick hole, but we didn’t smuggle that night.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
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Neither simplistically optimistic nor preachy, “Hoppers” smuggles timely ideas inside a rodent body.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026
Treating occurrences as things that exist smuggles confusion into our language and concepts.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2025
Kigali denies UN evidence that it smuggles vast amounts of gold and other metals out of eastern DR Congo and sells them as its own.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2025
“Everyone smuggles food out of kitchens. I mean what else are you going to make? Unless it’s smuggled food,” she said.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 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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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
Officials explained that such eggs were often smuggled in improvised incubators and in conditions that endangered the welfare of developing embryos and hatchlings.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 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
Over the past six months, prices for smuggled Nvidia chips have more than doubled, according to Chinese distributors, due to tightened U.S. enforcement and shipping delays in the Middle East.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Washington wanted no last-minute changes smuggled in without his approval.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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Miller has directed officials to increase investigations into migrant smuggling networks, people familiar with his directives said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 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
The US leader listed several activities that he said needed to stop immediately: "oil smuggling, swap lines, cash transfers, exchange houses, ship registries, front companies".
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
My aunt found him smuggling doughnuts into his room yesterday.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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