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The spool suit is the latest in a coordinated effort by California’s municipalities and the state attorney general’s office to throttle the bootleg gun industry by stanching the flow of its precursor components.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

Stick Figure’s “Angels Above Me” went viral as an uncredited AI bootleg, “Run Run River.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

Retatrutide is so effective that a gray market for bootleg versions of the drug, which hasn’t been approved for sale, has been thriving for more than two years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025

Even Cook bought bootleg copies of the song, some of which had been taped off his live sets on BBC Radio 1 and pressed to vinyl.

From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025

And he brought me and Jazz bootleg movies to watch.

From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds

If you didn’t tape a copy off of your local FM station, it wasn’t hard to find somebody that did, and it became one of the first commercial R.E.M. bootlegs.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

Patrick Mahomes is coming off knee surgery, and Andy Reid will need to scheme around what he can’t do yet, mainly moving out of the pocket on bootlegs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

And presumably, he can print some crazy, one-off Deep Purple bootlegs just for himself?

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2023

But they bit on fakes and bootlegs and gave up 98 rushing yards to quarterbacks.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 3, 2022

She prodded at the radio and found a college station, staticky and amateurish, and nodded her head along with the mash-up mixes and concert bootlegs the DJ was spinning.

From Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow

VHS went obsolete and “Rad” wasn’t released on DVD, leaving fans scavenging for bootlegged copies and former rentals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

This is like as close to getting bootlegged as possible.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

In the salons I went to as a child, I remember men peddling bootlegged movies and fashions to the clients with their hair wrapped or freshly sheened as they dug for cash in their purses.

From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2023

Atlanta’s young quarterback, Desmond Ridder, bootlegged for a 6-yard touchdown on fourth-and-4 with just under 12 minutes remaining.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 17, 2023

There is an ancient-looking air conditioner hanging on to the ledge of the bootlegged window, and the glass above the machine has been covered with a piece of decorative cloth.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

With four simple words, a sport that was born out of bootlegging, good ole boys and fast cars graduated from a regional sideshow to a national spectacle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2023

Mr. Rapp, the prosecutor, said that Mr. Bout’s conviction had been a little like that of Al Capone, the Chicago mobster who was eventually jailed for tax evasion — not murder or bootlegging or racketeering.

From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2022

To combat the bootlegging, his team chose to persuade major retailers to buy scrunchies from them rather than seek damages through litigation.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2022

The deal is complicated by a recent ruling by the World Trade Organization that the Saudis facilitated the bootlegging of sports broadcasts, as well as the kingdom’s human rights record.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 21, 2020

“What could be more dangerous than a fake quarantine and a town-sponsored bootlegging operation?”

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool