mules
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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Many Cuban-Americans now resort to informal service providers such as money runners, known locally as mules.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
The government in Havana has very little access to remittances, because they usually arrive via private travelers known as money "mules," he told AFP.
From Barron's • Feb. 22, 2026
I had been enamored of this view since 1962, when I first drove to the end of Highway 190 in Quaking Aspen to begin my summer job packing mules into the Sierra backcountry.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2025
The NCA said its work led to 48 money mules being arrested in one month this autumn.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2024
They entered noiselessly before dawn, with two pieces of light artillery drawn by mules, and they set up their headquarters in the school.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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