mules
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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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
Here are five mules pulling this century along:
From The Wall Street Journal • 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
Square toes continue to reign heading into fall, and these mules are just the right amount of tough.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2024
Cavalry soldiers, ninety-seven Cheyenne, Kiowa, Pawnee, and Sioux Indians, another fifty Cossacks and Hussars, 180 horses, eighteen buffalo, ten elk, ten mules, and a dozen other animals.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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