as in runner
a person who imports or exports goods secretly and illegally
during Prohibition, smugglers of alcohol did a brisk business
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Recent Examples of smuggler
By the end of episode six, suspicion points to Martin Aminov, a smuggler connected to international weapons trafficking and the trade of blood diamonds.
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Isadora Wandermurem, Time, 26 Mar. 2026
Two smugglers were later sentenced to decades in prison for that incident.
—CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026
Since that breakout moment, Weir has continued to use scientific questions to drive the plots of his work, like 2014’s Artemis, a space-heist story starring an intergalactic smuggler set entirely on the moon.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2026
Agents were discovering players and then paying smugglers to transport them.
—Tyler Carmona, Miami Herald, 11 Mar. 2026
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Isadora Wandermurem, Time, 26 Mar. 2026
Two smugglers were later sentenced to decades in prison for that incident.
—CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026
Since that breakout moment, Weir has continued to use scientific questions to drive the plots of his work, like 2014’s Artemis, a space-heist story starring an intergalactic smuggler set entirely on the moon.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2026
Agents were discovering players and then paying smugglers to transport them.
—Tyler Carmona, Miami Herald, 11 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for smuggler
Noun
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But the Angels went 0 for 8 with runners in scoring position and struck out 11 times.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Apr. 2026
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Between parking restrictions and road closures, Boston is encouraging Marathon Monday visitors to walk, bike, take the T — anything but drive — to watch the runners or attend the day’s festivities.—
Colleen Cronin,
Boston Herald,
20 Apr. 2026
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On Monday, the PRC approved the courier’s request to add an 8 percent fuel surcharge.—
Glenn Taylor,
Footwear News,
7 Apr. 2026
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Sam An, a pharmacist at a compounding pharmacy until 2021, told me that his workplace employed about twenty people—pharmacists, technicians, cashiers, couriers—in what resembled a chemistry laboratory.—
Dhruv Khullar,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Even the underground tunnels bootleggers used to service the Green Mill during its speakeasy days are still in place.—
Meena Thiruvengadam,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Apr. 2026
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His father was a factory worker and a barber, as well as a bootlegger and loan shark.—
Gary Baum,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Apr. 2026
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In the first onscreen interaction between them, Rue, now working as a drug mule for a dealer named Laurie (Martha Kelly), wends her way through a labyrinthine house party before meeting Alamo, sitting in a hot tub, flanked by four strippers, and wearing a Speedo and a cowboy hat.—
Molly Lambert,
Vulture,
20 Apr. 2026
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The most obvious influence right from the Season 3 opening, in which drug mule Rue (Zendaya) struggles to make her way across the border, is the American Western, a reference point that greatly excited production designer François Audouy.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
19 Apr. 2026
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“Smuggler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smuggler. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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