bootlegged
Example Sentences
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My TV habit included rental-store tapes of bootlegged movies and shows dubbed from American TV.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025
Hildebrandt said that a decade ago, dental students in her classes “were basically giving each other thumb drives with bootlegged copies of the head and neck.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2024
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
The song has the scratchy, low quality vibe of a bootlegged demo; and the vocals are sometimes slurred and glitchy - likely to be artefacts of the AI process.
From BBC • Apr. 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
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