mules
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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The government in Havana has very little access to remittances, because they usually arrive via private travelers known as money "mules," he told AFP.
From Barron's • Feb. 22, 2026
I had been enamored of this view since 1962, when I first drove to the end of Highway 190 in Quaking Aspen to begin my summer job packing mules into the Sierra backcountry.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2025
From there, smaller vehicles navigate over rough terrain before porters and mules haul baskets on the final stretch, up to 20,000 feet above sea level.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 25, 2025
Cifas told BBC Newsbeat it considered social media to be a "key enabler" for recruiting money mules, while the NCA says TikTok and Instagram are "very prevalent" in cases it's investigating.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2024
As I fastened the last strap, out there in the hot sun with the mules snorting and stomping and twitching off green flies, he finally said it.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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