smuggler
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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
"All migrants have to pay a smuggler," says Hermine Gbedo of the anti-trafficking network Stella Polare.
From BBC • Dec. 5, 2025
Millions of people, using sophisticated smuggler networks, have started turning up at the borders of industrialized countries, many of them economic migrants who aren’t in imminent danger.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025
In February, customs officials at Mumbai airport stopped a smuggler with five Siamang Gibbons, an ape native to the forests of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand.
From Barron's • Oct. 31, 2025
He hasn’t hired a smuggler because she hasn’t asked for one; she hasn’t said yes to coming because he hasn’t hired a smuggler.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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