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 In response, Amodei urges the US government to continue blocking and shutting down Chinese efforts to smuggle cutting-edge Nvidia GPUs. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 28 July 2026 The heart arrives smuggled in with the blade, in these monologues as text. — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 25 July 2026 They were repatriated through cooperation between the FBI and the ministry after provenance research established that they had been smuggled out of Indonesia, Zon added. — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 23 July 2026 Authorities arrested Munster and Claude Kwe, a research fellow at Rocky Mountain Labs, June 2 on charges of conspiracy to smuggle mpox into the United States and lying to border agents. — CNN Money, 22 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for smuggle

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The new, 115,000 square-foot store is expected to employ around 450 people and will sell a variety of food, including produce, baked goods, deli products and will offer a selection of wine and beer.

— Mike Darnay, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026
The Dania Beach headquarters campus that once served as the nerve center of now-defunct Spirit Airlines has been sold to a Boston hedge fund that served as the stalking horse bidder in a bankruptcy court auction.

— David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2026

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Uganda received its first batch of nearly 20,000 doses of lenacapavir in February and began distributing it in April, one month behind schedule.

— Michal Ruprecht, NPR, 13 Aug. 2026
Images distributed by Iran’s semiofficial news agency ISNA showed oil fouling the island's beaches.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026

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Ukraine also launched another attack on the premises of Wildberries, Russia’s biggest online retailer, which Kyiv says helps supply the Russian military.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
Merck, which developed the original MMR combination shot, stopped supplying single, or monovalent, vaccines against measles, mumps and rubella in the US in 2008.

— Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026

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