smuggling 1 of 2

noun

Definition of smugglingnext
as in poaching

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smuggling

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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
  • Looking ahead to 2025, the final year of the three-year Music of the Spheres World Tour, Coldplay is outselling the next best-selling experience, Oasis, by nearly 4x on StubHub.
    Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The platform will initially focus on selling new cars, with South Korea’s Hyundai starting off as its launch partner.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of selling
Noun
  • Some states, including Florida, have implemented harsher penalties for those found criminally liable for porch piracy and package theft.
    Chandelis Duster, NPR, 3 Dec. 2024
  • In early 2000s New York City, a struggling filmmaker finds power and purpose in the criminal underworld of film piracy, before falling into a cat-and-mouse game with the FBI and studios hell-bent on stopping him.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 2 Dec. 2024
Definition of piracy
Verb
  • The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has started distributing refunds totaling more than $72 million to players impacted by Fortnite's billing practices.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
  • In March, the Rocket Foundation introduced Sparks Grants, distributing $10,000 each to 10 Atlanta organizations dedicated to creating safer neighborhoods.
    Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 9 Dec. 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
  • For about half of those cases, optional criteria were used to help classify a person’s disappearance as an abduction or voluntary, according to an NCIC report.
    Amanda Musa, CNN, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Court records obtained by FOX 4 Kansas City state that Malone contacted Barry County Sheriff’s deputies on Monday, November 25, to report Lewis’ possible abduction.
    Stepheny Price, Fox News, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of abduction
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