piracy
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They span efforts to train Somalian coastguards in tackling piracy, advise border police in Mali, and help Ukrainian prosecutors investigate war crime allegations.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
The department had initially intercepted and inspected the shipment at the port based on a tip received by its counterfeit and piracy enforcement team, the department said in the release.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
This year's figures, however, remain far below those recorded in 2011, when piracy in the region peaked.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Welch responds to the then-new phenomenon of online music piracy with practical concerns.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026
These days the Sistermen left open piracy to Salladhor Saan and his ilk and confined themselves to wrecking.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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Three are found in Article I, Section 8: counterfeiting, piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against international law.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2016
The piracies represented an oddly terrifying juxtaposition of technology and barbarism, an almost science-fiction quality of civilization in a retrograde time machine, stranded abruptly in a desert waste.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Minos, King of Crete, tried to suppress these piracies.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper
The best measure, however, of the Saxon piracies is to be found in two terms, each of which has always commanded the attention of investigators—the names Saxones Bajocassini and Littus Saxonicum.
From The Ethnology of the British Islands by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
No one deserves to be called an antiquarian who cannot put two and two together, and reconstruct from these data a more or less elaborate history of the piracies of Mr. Thomas Veal.
From The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers
Vocabulary lists containing piracy
Vocabulary from The Articles of Confederation
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"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 11
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