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Recent Examples of bootlegger
Groucho Marx stars as the new president of Huxley College, who attempts to sign on two pro players to help beat rival Darwin University but ends up getting a pair of bootleggers instead.
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Brian Truitt, USA Today, 6 Feb. 2026
Set along the Mississippi coast in the 1920s, the story traces the unlikely friendship between a bootlegger’s wife and a young woman fleeing violence.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 1 Feb. 2026
And follow along on NASCAR’s journey, from its bootlegger beginnings to its billion-dollar rise to the top of the sports world.
—Bill Bootz, Charlotte Observer, 23 Dec. 2025
No one knows why; no one has a telephone in the rural Blue Ridge Mountains, so John Boy sets out into a winter storm to find his daddy, having various escapades with the quirky residents of their backwoods community—a Black preacher, a pair of old-lady bootleggers, a turkey thief—along the way.
—Literary Hub, 22 Dec. 2025
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Brian Truitt, USA Today, 6 Feb. 2026
Set along the Mississippi coast in the 1920s, the story traces the unlikely friendship between a bootlegger’s wife and a young woman fleeing violence.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 1 Feb. 2026
And follow along on NASCAR’s journey, from its bootlegger beginnings to its billion-dollar rise to the top of the sports world.
—Bill Bootz, Charlotte Observer, 23 Dec. 2025
No one knows why; no one has a telephone in the rural Blue Ridge Mountains, so John Boy sets out into a winter storm to find his daddy, having various escapades with the quirky residents of their backwoods community—a Black preacher, a pair of old-lady bootleggers, a turkey thief—along the way.
—Literary Hub, 22 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bootlegger
smuggler
Noun
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The tactic has become more popular with smugglers as police on the beaches try to thwart crossings by puncturing the rafts that groups of migrants have to inflate and carry to the water.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
11 Apr. 2026
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Cook County Jail in Chicago, which houses nearly 5,000 detainees, has reported increasing cases of smugglers soaking paper with synthetic drugs and sending them into the jail through mail or visitors.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
7 Apr. 2026
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