SMUGGLE Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

smuggle

verb

Definition of smuggle

as in to sell

to move (people or goods) from one country to another secretly and illegally They were arrested for smuggling drugs across the border.

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Recent Examples of smuggle Kseniia Petrov was accused of smuggling frog embryos into the United States. — Laura Romero, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2026 Researchers found that metal goods continued to be smuggled despite strict government restrictions, raising the possibility that authorities deliberately turned a blind eye to the practice. — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 1 Nov. 2026 Money collected from smuggling customers moved through shell companies to conceal its source and recipients. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2026 Now, however, more than half of its annual production is smuggled out by traders, generals, and militia leaders, according to United Nations experts and other analysts. — Mat Nashed, Christian Science Monitor, 28 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for smuggle

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The verdict St Vincent possesses an unexplored, get-away-from-it-all tranquillity that many more boisterous Caribbean islands would sell their last rum punch for.

— James Rampton, TheWeek, 3 Nov. 2026
The three suspects — two Greeks and one Albanian national — are accused of removing piping from the building’s gas supply network to sell the copper as scrap, causing a major gas leak.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of sell

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The launch reflects a growing effort to address data center power constraints by distributing computing capacity across existing sites.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 12 Nov. 2026
The garden in the Bronx and its curators worked with Krukoff to name and distribute his sets of plant samples and kept copies for their own collections.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Nov. 2026

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The seven-year alliance focuses on supplying critical lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cathodes and synthetic graphite anodes to meet surging demand for affordable EVs and data center energy storage systems.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Nov. 2026
Built in the 1860s to supply water to the nearby Lambeth Workhouse, where Charlie Chaplin lived with his mother when the family fell into poverty, this former piece of civic infrastructure has since taken on a very different purpose.

— Tori Latham, Robb Report, 10 Nov. 2026

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