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noun

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as in poaching

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verb

present participle of smuggle
as in selling
to move (people or goods) from one country to another secretly and illegally They were arrested for smuggling drugs across the border.

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for smuggling
  1. selling
  2. piracy
  3. distributing
  4. trafficking
  5. abduction
Verb
  • More recently, Metro Boomin secured a deal worth $70 million by selling a portion of his publishing catalog to Shamrock.
    Kori Hale, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Sometimes selling every two minutes, this deodorant features the same jasmine, lily of the valley, sandalwood, and vanilla notes as its perfume counterpart—which, while undeniably popular since its launch in 1994, doesn't fly off shelves quite as rapidly as this sweat-stopping solid.
    Sarah Madaus, Allure, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of selling
Noun
  • On Monday, he was further convicted on counts of providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization, conspiring to commit aircraft piracy, conspiring to destroy aircraft and conspiring to commit acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The piracy tracking firm VFT calculated that roughly 17 million fans watched the 2024 Super Bowl illegally.
    Vitas Carosella, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
Definition of piracy
Verb
  • Buncombe County was distributing ready-to-eat meals and bottled water with daily limits of two meal packages per adult and one per child.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024
  • What may be bothering California’s lawmakers is that the means for making and distributing forms of political propaganda are being democratized.
    The Editors, National Review, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of distributing
Verb
  • The crisis at our southern border in which drug cartels are trafficking women, children, drugs, fentanyl pouring into our country.
    CBS News, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Matthew is serving a 7-year prison sentence in Singapore's Changi Prison for trafficking meth.
    Rebecca Wright, CNN, 19 Oct. 2024
Definition of trafficking
Noun
  • Napolitano, to this day, insists the abduction happened.
    Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Cuéllar later refuted the suspicion that he was affiliated with the abduction.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of abduction
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