smuggled

Example Sentences

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Larissa Rodrigues from the Escolhas Institute said that due to a government clampdown, gold that previously "exited Brazil through the front door" was being smuggled out through countries like Guyana or Venezuela.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

Diversity was not smuggled into this agency by ideologues.

From Slate • May 14, 2026

The banks allowed him to transfer money to Turkey, where cash was converted into gold and smuggled into Iran.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

Two months before that, authorities arrested a man after concluding he had smuggled six birds in his boots and six more in his car — two of them dead.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2026

And somehow it had come, from this source or that; some openly, some smuggled in by the visitors he insisted he was entitled to have.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman