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Recent Examples of bootlegger
From embracing bootleggers to pulling its catalog from Spotify, Mackenzie explains how the band has tried to protect its creative core while the industry transforms around it.
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Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 13 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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Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 13 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
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As Danny and Lena squared off against thieves, smugglers, and serial killers, Boston Blue also explored the tangled branches of the Silver family tree.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 May 2026
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The reductions, which reduced the number of entomologists, have emboldened ant smugglers, Wired reported.—
Janet Loehrke,
USA Today,
15 May 2026
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“Bootlegger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bootlegger. Accessed 2 Jun. 2026.
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