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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

Officials explained that such eggs were often smuggled in improvised incubators and in conditions that endangered the welfare of developing embryos and hatchlings.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

The BBC has seen evidence that oil is being smuggled across the border from Iran to Pakistan en masse by bikers, some as young as 15.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

In the 1740s, Johann Sebastian Bach smuggled his own surname into his Mass in B Minor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

While it is true that Booth and Herold have crossed the Potomac, the information actually refers to a group of men smuggled into Virginia on Easter Sunday, not Booth and Herold.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly