as in runner
a person who imports or exports goods secretly and illegally
during Prohibition, smugglers of alcohol did a brisk business
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Khan detailed plans for the attack to the undercover officers, including housing to rent and having a smuggler get him into the United States, according to the complaint.
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Sarah D. Wire, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2024
Standing next to the border fence, Vance relayed his mother's experience with drug addiction as a child to highlight the suffering of families who lost relatives to fentanyl and other drug smugglers across the U.S.-Mexico border.
—Rafael Carranza, The Arizona Republic, 1 Aug. 2024
Serhii’s journey back to the land of the living leads him to the frontlines and the Chop Pirates, a group of former smugglers from Transcarpathia.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Sep. 2024
As more immigrants began crossing from Mexico into California last fall, human smugglers in Mexico shifted people away from Texas and further west.
—Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 6 Sep. 2024
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Sarah D. Wire, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2024
Standing next to the border fence, Vance relayed his mother's experience with drug addiction as a child to highlight the suffering of families who lost relatives to fentanyl and other drug smugglers across the U.S.-Mexico border.
—Rafael Carranza, The Arizona Republic, 1 Aug. 2024
Serhii’s journey back to the land of the living leads him to the frontlines and the Chop Pirates, a group of former smugglers from Transcarpathia.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Sep. 2024
As more immigrants began crossing from Mexico into California last fall, human smugglers in Mexico shifted people away from Texas and further west.
—Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 6 Sep. 2024
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