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Recent Examples of bootlegger
The granddaughter of a bootlegger grows up to be an upstanding citizen and a minister’s wife.
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Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Aug. 2025
Sharon Stone co-stars as a mob boss with a few screws loose — her gang of bootleggers toggles with Hutch, threatening to ruin everyone’s R&R.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 15 Aug. 2025
Ranch hands and migrant farmers arrived in the eighteen-hundreds, followed by bootleggers, bartenders, drug runners, and pimps.
—Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
Rather than being punished, the research shows that, surprisingly, some bootleggers are praised and offered more opportunities to perform live gigs than DJs who produce official remixes or original music.
—London School Of Economics, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
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Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Aug. 2025
Sharon Stone co-stars as a mob boss with a few screws loose — her gang of bootleggers toggles with Hutch, threatening to ruin everyone’s R&R.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 15 Aug. 2025
Ranch hands and migrant farmers arrived in the eighteen-hundreds, followed by bootleggers, bartenders, drug runners, and pimps.
—Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
Rather than being punished, the research shows that, surprisingly, some bootleggers are praised and offered more opportunities to perform live gigs than DJs who produce official remixes or original music.
—London School Of Economics, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bootlegger
smuggler
Noun
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First by shadowing a refugee smuggler and some refugees preparing to trek through the treacherous Darién Gap rainforest.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
30 Sep. 2025
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The family travelled north from Central America for weeks, crossing rivers by night and riding concealed in smugglers’ trucks.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Bootlegger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bootlegger. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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