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smuggled

  • past participle
    of smuggle.
    smuggle
    verb (used with object)
    to import or export (goods) secretly, in violation of the law, especially without payment of legal duty.
  • past tense form
    of smuggle.
    smuggle
    verb (used with object)
    to import or export (goods) secretly, in violation of the law, especially without payment of legal duty.

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As a young man, by his account, he smuggled diamonds, oversaw coconut plantations, dynamited fish, captained schooners and hunted killer cannibals in the New Guinea jungle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

The Wall Street Journal’s Dasl Yoon and a former North Korean soldier examine a smartphone that was smuggled out of the world’s most reclusive nation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

A video also smuggled out of prison showed him singing a patriotic song in the prison yard ahead of execution.

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

According to the real Asa, their parents had smuggled her out of the village at a young age but weren’t able to take Yuru with them.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

Over the course of her subsequent visits, she secretly smuggled food, medicine, money, and letters into the camp—not just for her brother, but for other prisoners too —under threat of death.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly