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piracy

[pahy-ruh-see] / ˈpaɪ rə si /


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What’s more, they have to think about safeguarding against piracy or terrorism if businesses are handling nuclear fuel across international waters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

But piracy could ultimately limit how much they will be willing to pay in future.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Until relatively recently, clamping down on piracy was not seen as a priority by the broadcasters themselves.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

A judge ruled the AI company could use books for training in some circumstances, but the “fair use” argument didn’t cover millions of books that Anthropic obtained from known ebook piracy sites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

Despite the lure of piracy, he decided that dinner would be a good idea.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser

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

For instance, only this very year, there was a serious controversy about Disraeli’s literary piracies, as they were called in the Manchester Examiner. 

From About London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

The ship was built by Lord Willoughby to protect English commerce from the piracies of the Dunkirkers. 

From James VI and the Gowrie Mystery by Andrew Lang

Your excellency also spoke of piracies committed in these seas.

From The Argus Pheasant by John Charles Beecham


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