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For a decade, the Revolutionary Guard used small fishing boats, known as dhows, to smuggle small arms, drone components and missiles out of Iran to the Houthis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Do not smuggle in assumptions from the past.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

He adds that he believes groups linked to the regime are now trying to smuggle more fuel to take advantage of rising prices caused by the war.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 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

If he had known what was coming up for his day, he would have been begging me to smuggle him to school in my backpack.

From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick

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

“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

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

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

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

Pesticides prohibited in Kenya are sometimes smuggled across this porous border with Tanzania and used in farms within the Amboseli area, where elephants live near human settlements and are known to raid farms for food.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 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

Somehow Leah smuggled Maggie out of Troy that night and brought her to a hotel in nearby Albany to recover.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

Police suspect the network was responsible for smuggling up to 40,000 phones during 2024 and 2025, exporting them to China.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

A years-long investigation by the US Justice Department traced and tracked the smuggling routes and resulted in thousands of looted artefacts being returned to Iraq.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

Georgia’s Department of Corrections has arrested 18 staff and 92 civilians this year for smuggling contraband into prisons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Trafficked animals are often weakened by the process of smuggling, stressed by the loss of their habitat and family group, and vulnerable to unfamiliar diseases.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

I could not remember seeing an egg in my smuggling searches, but then I hadn’t been looking for eggs.

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli