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as in smuggler
a person who imports or exports goods secretly and illegally under wartime rationing, the only way to obtain some foods was from a courier

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Recent Examples of courier McGee allegedly ran a drug distribution organization that used children as young as three years old as couriers. Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2025 The courier plans to shift non-urgent letter mail to be moved by ground instead of air and reduce the number of delivery days in a week. Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 13 Oct. 2025 Tips made up only about 10% of ride-hailing drivers’ pay, while for couriers who deliver packages that number was less than 4%. Levi Sumagaysay, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025 Staged to look like a random mugging of a courier, the robbery was, in fact, a sophisticated heist that would ultimately involve the Provisional IRA, the New York mafia and the Colombian cartel. Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for courier
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Noun
  • The next administration could once again allow smugglers to exploit loopholes that resulted in hundreds of thousands of children being pushed across the border.
    Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Teaming with a colorful cast of characters, their investigation sends them on an expedition that takes in Scottish politics, AI, cults, secret agents, smugglers, and vegan record shops.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Unlike the innumerable photons from sunlight, perhaps a dozen per second trickle through my cornea from this distant messenger, having departed it years ago, colliding with my photoreceptors and ending their unlikely journey.
    Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • These kinds of supplements are thought to promote joint health by triggering the immune system to produce chemical messengers that tamp down inflammation.
    Maria Godoy, NPR, 20 Oct. 2025

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“Courier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/courier. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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