contraband
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After a visit home, I returned to campus with a stockpile, like a confectionery smuggler crossing state lines with sugary contraband stuffed between sweatshirts in my suitcase.
From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026
According to the ICE website, the HSI investigates global threats, investigating the illegal movement of people, goods, money, contraband, weapons and sensitive technology into, out of, and through the United States.
From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026
In its efforts to combat contraband, the agency had learned how smugglers moved goods across the border, taking advantage of corruption in the ranks of Russian customs authorities.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 2025
Bags are searched with contraband, even including skin-bleaching creams, widely used elsewhere in Sudan, are confiscated.
From BBC • Oct. 25, 2025
Newspapers were more valuable to political prisoners than gold or diamonds, more hungered for than food or tobacco; they were the most precious contraband on Robben Island.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Vocabulary lists containing contraband
Against All Odds: Contra and Counter
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Excerpts from "To Kill a Mockingbird"
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