smuggle
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Do not smuggle in assumptions from the past.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 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
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
Most recently, the stock fell 33% on March 20 after the U.S. government charged Super Micro co-founder Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw and two other individuals regarding an alleged plan to smuggle U.S.-assembled servers to China.
From Barron's ● May 5, 2026
But the guards either didn’t think we would try to sneak anything back in or figured there wasn’t anything left of value in the ghetto to smuggle.
From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz
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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
Jonathan, who is grateful that someone is guiding his path to becoming an observant Jew, makes compilations that Zalmy smuggles into his room like precious contraband.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2022
I’ve learned a bit about evolution thanks to the books and newspapers Jackson smuggles me, and the comparison doesn't sit well.
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
In the 1740s, Johann Sebastian Bach smuggled his own surname into his Mass in B Minor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Journalists and some White House staff on board did not know he had been smuggled out.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 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
“My mother smuggled that to me when I was young. Told me to hide it,” he says.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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In his most recent essay, Amodei reiterated cracking down on unauthorized distillation in countries, such as China, and on chip smuggling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
"This is a stark reminder of the ruthless acts used by smuggling gangs to exploit desperate people for profit, but today shows there is nowhere for them to hide."
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 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
Miller has directed officials to increase investigations into migrant smuggling networks, people familiar with his directives said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
They were all ingenious strategies, but they were also small-potatoes methods of smuggling.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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