as in smuggler
a person who imports or exports goods secretly and illegally contrabandists supplying the rebels with guns

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Noun
  • Migrants hoping for safety and stability are routinely caught in webs of existential uncertainty—they are transferred from smugglers to traffickers, militias to police, and humanitarian organizations to governments.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
  • That edge is somewhat novel in Star Wars’s universe of smugglers, which typically feels bifurcated between scoundrels with a heart of gold and petty criminals who are rarely more than their base nature.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Kiké Hernández advanced Pages and automatic runner Michael Conforto to second and third with a sacrifice bunt.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2025
  • In 15 career at-bats against Burnes, Alonso has gone yard three times and driven in seven runners.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
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“Contrabandist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contrabandist. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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