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to move (people or goods) from one country to another secretly and illegally
They were arrested for smuggling drugs across the border.
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Recent Examples of smuggled
Kerry Breen, CBS News, 2 Oct. 2024
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The 3,600 pounds of drugs were left on a beach on the popular tourist island of Vieques in the pre-dawn hours and the people who smuggled the drugs fled the area, officials said.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 2 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for smuggled
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The Van Gogh Museum has identified three works attributed to Van Gogh in private collections that are fake, including a painting of a peasant women that sold through Christie’s for nearly $1 million in 2011 and was even previously authenticated by the Amsterdam institution.Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 4 Oct. 2024
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European carmakers are set to launch more affordable EVs this year and next in order meet these targets, which ramp up CO2 emission savings to ensure 100% of new cars sold in 2025 are all-electric.Neil Winton, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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Fair enough, as long as baby Halo isn’t doing any unauthorized sponsorships anytime soon.Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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Cyber Protect Advanced enables remote device management, including data wiping, to prevent unauthorized access.PCMAG, PCMAG, 6 Nov. 2024
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Altogether, there are four bedrooms and four bathrooms, plus an additional powder room, distributed over roughly 4,200 square feet.Mark David, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2024
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As a replacement, MLB produced the games and distributed the games locally.Brad Adgate, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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That project was thrown into the spotlight seven years ago after authorities discovered that Job Torres Hernandez, an unlicensed subcontractor, was holding immigrant workers in a warehouse and forcing them to work without pay.Devan Patel, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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During the twentieth century, decades of looting by divers and unlicensed salvage companies stripped some seabeds clean.Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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Given his support for dubious and unproven therapies, such as stem cells and hyperbaric oxygen, an FDA under Kennedy, for instance, could choose to not go after companies that market unapproved treatments.Emily Mullin, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2024
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The dispute relates to a lawsuit filed by Art City Center in 2022, which accused Gap of making unapproved modifications to a downtown Los Angeles building leased as part of the partnership between Yeezy and Gap.Mark Faithfull, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
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Throughout modern Chinese history, rumor has been a flexible category that has included not only speculation and falsehoods but also unsanctioned opinions about contemporary events.Jason Q. Ng, Foreign Affairs, 6 Oct. 2015
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The problem is, bad guys easily create a host of new unsanctioned wallets, with layers of separation from their illicit activities, to outsmart solutions like this.Javier Paz, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Smuggled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smuggled. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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